Taos
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- TOWSS
- Origin
- Native American
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Taos is a boys' name of Native American origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Taos mean?
Native American: from Taos, New Mexico, a Tiwa name via Spanish
Taos Pueblo in New Mexico has been lived in by Tiwa-speaking people for about a thousand years.
Is Taos a girl's or a boy's name?
Taos is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Taos in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 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, 9 boys in the US were named Taos, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the boys named Taos in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Taos in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,695 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
Names like Taos
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru Thiago Truce Kairo Tripp Ares Townes Chozen Kaizen Riggs Yug Briggs
More Native American names
Dakota Tallulah Nayeli Winona Kenai Cree Xochitl Xitlali Citlali Alaska Talulah Sequoia Denali Tennessee Dakoda Lakota
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, “Taos: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/taos, updated 20 October 2026.