Taraji
Taraji is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 680th, in 2010.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 340.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2010423 births
- Best rank
- #680in 2010
- Since 2002
- 2,749people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,749 girls have been named Taraji in the United States since 2002, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 423 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 77%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Taraji was the 680th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2010 were Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Taraji
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zooeypeak 2012
- Aleeahpeak 2012
- Kenleypeak 2012
- Khloepeak 2010
- Giulianapeak 2012
- Khloeepeak 2011
- Audrinapeak 2011
- Makinleypeak 2013
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.