Taya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 195 babies a year in the US.
Taya by the numbers
In 2025, 21 babies in England and Wales were named Taya. In the US, 195 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 364 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Taya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Taya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Taya
Names that are said the same way as Taya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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