Tayshaun
Masculine
Tayshaun is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,319 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
Tayshaun Prince won a championship with Detroit in 2004 and the name peaks in 2005. What makes it interesting is that his own name was a coinage of the early 1980s: the parents invented it, the son made it visible, and other families copied it a generation later.
How old is the name Tayshaun?
Tayshaun first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Tayshaun alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,300 people named Tayshaun are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tayshaun most popular?
Tayshaun peaked in 2005, reaching #937 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,777 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sean to Tayshaun
The story of Tayshaun
Most coined names are used once or twice within a family and vanish. A small number get out, and the mechanism is almost always visibility: one bearer becomes known, and the name is copied by families who had never encountered it. Tayshaun Prince was born in 1980, in the middle of the period when this kind of compound was being made in large numbers, and his own name was one of those private inventions. He was drafted in 2002, won an NBA title in 2004, and the name's national peak follows in 2005. The result is a second life for a coinage that would otherwise have stayed in one household. The same thing happened to Jalen, from Jalen Rose, and to Kobe. What the pattern shows is that the invented half of the American name stock is not random: a few of its products get selected and amplified, and the rest disappear.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Tayshaun has no inherited etymology. It joins a Tay- opening, from Tyrone or Taylor or the sound stock, to Shaun, an English respelling of Irish Sean, which is John. The compound is American and dates from the late twentieth century. The peak is 2005.
How the name formed
- Sean
- Shaun
- Tayshaun
Related forms: Tayshawn · Tayshon
Pronouncing Tayshaun
tay-SHAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Tayshaun, Tayshawn and Tayshon are homophones with several spellings.
Nicknames for Tayshaun
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
- 1997
- Most boys named
- 2005186 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #937reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −36.4%7 in 2025, from 11
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.
Tayshaun in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tayshawn in English — spelling variant
- Tayshon in English — spelling variant
Tayshauns among us
people named Tayshaun are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Tayshaun
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Akira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tayshaun's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Akira climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Akira's path sketches the road Tayshaun is walking now.
Tayshaun sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tayshaun beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tayshaun in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tay and Shaun are both usable short forms.
- The stressed ending gives it a firm final beat.
- Both halves are familiar to American readers.
- It is closely identified with one athlete.
- Several spellings compete for the same sound.
- It has no meaning in any language.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tayshauns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Tayshaun are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tayshaun in 2025?
- Tayshaun ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tayshaun?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Tayshaun — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tayshaun with classmates?
- Tayshaun will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tayshaun
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