Taft
Taft is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 273rd, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 190862 births
- Best rank
- #273in 1908
- Since 1907
- 1,534people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,534 boys have been named Taft in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1908, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1910s alone account for 13%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Taft | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 130 | |
| 1910s | 192 | |
| 1920s | 74 | |
| 1930s | 155 | |
| 1940s | 152 | |
| 1950s | 131 | |
| 1960s | 126 | |
| 1970s | 97 | |
| 1980s | 89 | |
| 1990s | 75 | |
| 2000s | 93 | |
| 2010s | 161 | |
| 2020s | 59 |
In 1908, its biggest year
Taft was the 273rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1908 were John, William, James, George and Robert. See all of 1908.
Names that rose and fell with Taft
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Thedorepeak 1929
- Bookerpeak 1916
- Iverypeak 1919
- Busterpeak 1918
- Myerpeak 1918
- Roseveltpeak 1933
- Haskellpeak 1919
- Rulonpeak 1927
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.