Taytum
Masculine · “Tata's homestead”
Taytum is given to both — 621 boys and 3,997 girls since 1880. See Taytum as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Taytum respells Tatum — Tata's homestead — and Tata was an Old English personal name, so the meaning is one specific forgotten man's farm.
How old is the name Taytum?
Taytum first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Taytum is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Taytum are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taytum most popular?
Taytum peaked in 2025, reaching #2125 nationally. Today it ranks #2125, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Tata ham to Taytum
The story of Taytum
Tatenham in Sussex is the source of the surname, and Tata was a real if unrecoverable person. Art Tatum was among the great jazz pianists. The name entered American given-name use for both sexes and the Taytum respelling appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
Tata's homestead
Through Tatum, from the Old English personal name Tata plus ham, 'homestead' — Tatenham, worn down to Tatum. Tata is likely a nursery formation, the Old English equivalent of a baby-talk name. The -ytum respelling is modern American.
How the name formed
- Tata ham
- Tatum
- Taytum
Related forms: Tatum · Taitum
Pronouncing Taytum
TAY-tum
Two syllables, stress on the first. Taytum and Tatum are said identically.
Nicknames for Taytum
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
- 2005
- Most boys named
- 202469 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2125reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- −1.4%68 in 2025, from 69
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.
Taytum in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tatum in English — spelling variant
- Taitum in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Taytums among us
people named Taytum are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 25,119 born in 2025 was named Taytum
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Taytum
- #2125
- Taytum on the 2025 chart
- #852
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Taytum went to 68 boys in 2025, but Taitum is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 76, which makes it the 852nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,273 places above the chart.
- Taytum68
- Taitum8
About 1 boy in 22,475 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,119 for Taytum itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shann test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Taytum's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shann climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shann's path sketches the road Taytum is walking now.
Taytum 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
Where Taytum is headed
Taytum looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 40% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Taytum beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Taytum in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the name preserves one forgotten Anglo-Saxon's farm is a genuinely good fact.
- Tate and Tay are two short forms, both with real use.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Tatum is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- It is used for both sexes in America.
- The respelling will be corrected by other people constantly.
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Masculine · #2125 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Taytums are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Taytum are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Taytum?
- Taytum is the most-used spelling in US records — 68 of the 76 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Taitum.
- How popular is the name Taytum in 2025?
- Taytum ranks #2125 among US boy names in 2025, with 68 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Taytum?
- About 1 in every 25,119 US boys born in 2025 was named Taytum — 68 in all.
- Will my child share the name Taytum with classmates?
- Taytum will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Taytum
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