Tai

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tai: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tai: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #375 in 2011, and it stood at #1,859 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#375highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1999	#2770
2000	#3912
2001	#1870
2002	#2105
2003	#1722
2004	#2530
2005	#4798
2007	#4294
2018	#5666
2019	#4686
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2011: #375 among boys in Northern Ireland, #907 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1859 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Tai appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 679 births with the name.

Tai across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tai's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#534 (2002)	#1859 (2024)	29 of 29	679 (1996–2024)	44 (2010)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#1722 (2003)	#5687 (2023)	12 of 27	64 (1997–2023)	11 (2003)

Tai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tai in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	64	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	341	10 of 10	34
2010s	227	10 of 10	23
2020s	47	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Tai appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #375 in Northern Ireland in 2011.

Tai's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1236	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#907	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#699	44	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#884	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#775	37	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#733	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#705	36	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#667	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#558	41	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#534	39	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#686	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#554	34	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#750	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#924	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #375, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 15 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Taibah · #1365, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nabil · #375, 29y
Nelson · #375, 29y
Clarice · #374, 29y
Ellie-Mai · #376, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aden · #375, 29y
Anisah · #375, 27y
Bryson · #375, 25y
Izaac · #375, 29y

Tai was ranked #375 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2011. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tai and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tai without appearing here.

Tai moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #5119.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #4270.
Keith Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2325 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #3688.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2320 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Tai

Blake Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #484.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1711.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2530 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #2682.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2320 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #1461.

Moved the opposite way to Tai

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Tai

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tai went from #1235 to #1859 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #375 in Northern Ireland in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tai

Tai at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tai across 2 official records

Tai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Tai appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Tai at a glance

Tai across 2 official records

Tai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Tai appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tai

Tai and the names beside it

Tai moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tai

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