Tajah
Feminine · “Crown”
Tajah is given to both — 858 girls and 76 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Tajah is built on a Persian word for a crown, and the most famous building in the world is named with it — after the woman buried inside, whose own title contained the word.
How old is the name Tajah?
Tajah first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Tajah alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 800 people named Tajah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tajah most popular?
Tajah peaked in 1999, reaching #2115 nationally. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Tajah
The Taj Mahal is named for a person. The emperor's wife held the title Mumtaz Mahal, the chosen one of the palace, and the building put up over her grave took a shortened and altered form of it — crown of palaces, in effect, which is both a description of the building and a pun on her name. She died in childbirth with her fourteenth child while traveling with the army, and the tomb took the better part of two decades. The word for crown in her title is the same word that sits at the front of this name, which is a longer reach than most name books admit but a real one if the family meant it.
Meaningscholars disagree
Crown
The Persian and Arabic word taj means a crown, and it is genuinely a name element across South Asia and the Middle East. Whether this American spelling descends from it or was built from the sound is not established, and the added h at the end belongs to no tradition that uses the word.
Pronouncing Tajah
TAH-zhuh
Two syllables, stress at the front. The j is soft in the Persian word and often hard in American speech.
Nicknames for Tajah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 199972 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2115reached in 1999
- Change vs 2018
- +40.0%7 in 2024, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tajah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Taj in Persian — related form
- Taj in Arabic — related form
Tajahs among us
people named Tajah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tajah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The word behind it is concrete and grand without being heavy.
- It is short and easy for anyone to say.
- It works for either child, which the record confirms.
- The silent h at the end does nothing and will be dropped by most writers.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
- Whether the Persian word is really behind a given family's choice is worth asking rather than assuming.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tajahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Tajah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tajah in 2025?
- Tajah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tajah with classmates?
- Tajah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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