Nameling

Tajai

Gender
Boy
Say it
tah-JAY
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#12,003 for boys

Tajai is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

Where does Tajai come from?

Modern: modern US coinage, possibly built on Taj

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

Tajai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tajai in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Tajai, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 1996, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.

2025 had more boys named Tajai than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Tajai in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 21 in 19962025
Tajai in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20195#12,138
20180–
20170–
20165#12,180
20155#12,080
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20106#10,759
20090–
20080–
20077#9,782
20060–
20050–
20049#7,530
20035#10,886
200211#6,081
200111#6,006
20006#9,104
19999#6,524
199810#5,834
199719#3,596
199621#3,287
199516#3,848
199418#3,590
19937#6,809

Names like Tajai

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

Names related to Tajai

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