Taitum
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- TAY-tum
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Taitum is a name of English origin, meaning “Tata's homestead”. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Taitum mean?
English: variant of the surname Tatum
“Tata's homestead”
Tatum comes from Tatham, an English place name built on the Old English personal name Tata.
Is Taitum a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Taitum has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls and 8 boys in the US.
How popular is Taitum in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Taitum, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997. 8 boys were also named Taitum in 2025 (8,906th for boys).
2025 had more girls named Taitum than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Taitum in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,086 girls in the US were given Taitum or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #172, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Taitum in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,660 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,459 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,913 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,556 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,204 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
Nicknames for Taitum
- Tate 168 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Taitum
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru Yuna Dakota Rumi Yuri Kori Yumi Kiyomi Suki Remi Zuri Kyomi
Other spellings of Taitum
Names related to Taitum
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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, “Taitum: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/taitum, updated 20 October 2026.