How rare is the name Tae?

4,793 people in the United States have the first name Tae, about 1 in 63,015. It ranks #4,045 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TAE

#4,045

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,793
About
1 in 63,015
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,793 people named Tae, 83.2% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 9.1% as Black and 3.5% as White. 70.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tae peaked in 2000, when 28 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19522025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
28
In 2025*
10 ▼64%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 554 babies have been given the name since 1952. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tae by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #10,726. The largest share of babies named Tae, 45.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#11,26017
1960s#17,2535
1970s#12,77843
1980s#13,68058
1990s#12,279109
2000s#10,726184
2010s#18,41486
2020s#17,65452
Baby boom 1946–643.1%
Generation X 1965–8011%
Millennials 1981–9621.5%
Generation Z 1997–1245.8%
2013 and later18.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tae, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Tae ranks #58,829 of 156,621, with 372 people. See Tae as a last name

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