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Tahj

Gender
Boy
Say it
TAHZH
Origin
Persian
US rank, 2025
#1,539 for boys

Tahj is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “crown”. In 2025 it ranked 1,539th for boys in the US (112 babies).

What does Tahj mean?

Persian: spelling of Taj

“crown”

Is Tahj a girl's or a boy's name?

Tahj is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 112 boys in the US.

How popular is Tahj in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,539among boys
Babies in 2025
112about 1 in 15,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 19% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 112 boys in the US were named Tahj, making it the 1,539th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,081st. Its busiest year was 1998, with 204 boys. It first appears in the records in 1989. 5 girls were also named Tahj in 2025 (14,937th for girls).

It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Tahj than any year since 2012.

Half of all the boys named Tahj in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 212 boys in the US were given Tahj or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #955, up from #1,539 for this spelling alone.

1989Busiest: 204 in 19982025
Tahj in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
2025112#1,539
2024130#1,418
2023140#1,346
2022141#1,330
2021157#1,225
2020184#1,081
2019155#1,226
2018132#1,352
2017133#1,341
2016125#1,399
2015137#1,297
2014129#1,340
2013132#1,305
2012105#1,523
2011124#1,359
2010109#1,492
2009135#1,298
200887#1,736
200783#1,772
200671#1,892
200573#1,787
2004112#1,314
2003139#1,102
2002132#1,106
2001131#1,087
2000122#1,135
1999175#861
1998204#770
1997121#1,049
199627#2,742
199527#2,680
199422#3,103
199321#3,135
199227#2,593
199122#2,909
199026#2,548
198937#1,948

Names like Tahj

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Tahj

Names related to Tahj

More Persian names

Every Persian name

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, “Tahj: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tahj, updated 20 October 2026.