Tag
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- TAG
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Tag is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “son of the priest”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Tag mean?
Irish: short form of Taggart, from Gaelic Mac an tSagairt
“son of the priest”
Usually a short form of the surname Taggart, from Gaelic Mac an tSagairt 'son of the priest'.
Is Tag a girl's or a boy's name?
Tag is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tag in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Tag, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1962.
Half of all the boys named Tag in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tag in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,455 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,960 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,031 |
Names like Tag
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru, Yug, Ryu, Kairo, Mikko, Loki, Yuri, Kota, Minh, Yitzchok, Ryo, Takai
Names related to Tag
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tag: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tag, updated 20 October 2026.