Taytum
Taytum was the 732nd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 377 babies. Its best year was 2023, when it ranked 681st with 430 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,081 places. More babies were named Taytum in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Meaning spelling of Tatum (English place name) · Old English
Say it TAY-tum /ˈteɪtəm/
- Rank in 2025
- #732 girls, up 450 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 377girls
- Girls and boys
- 87% girls, 13% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 2023430 babies
- Total since 1880
- 4,618babies recorded
What does the name Taytum mean?
Taytum is a modern respelling of Tatum, an English surname. Wiktionary derives Tatum from Tatham, from an Old English personal name Tāta, of unknown meaning, plus hām, homestead: "Tāta's homestead." The Taytum spelling appears in US records from 1992, mostly for girls. Wiktionary records Tatum as a boys' and girls' name taken from the surname, and also as a town in New Mexico. Since Tāta's meaning is unknown, the name means only the place.
Tāta (Old English, “personal name (unknown meaning)”)hām (Old English, “homestead”)
How sure is this? Probable. Respelling inferred from the form; Tatum's origin is from Wiktionary.
Related names: Tatum, Tate, Taytem.
See also: English names, names from places.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Tatum' (English section), Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0; facts restated, no text reused)
- US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data 1880-2025 (yob*.txt), team3 computation of first year recorded, US Social Security Administration (public domain)
Nicknames for Taytum
The usual nicknames for Taytum are Tate. Some parents skip the long form: for every 100 girls named Taytum in the last five years, 24 were named Tate, against 101 twenty years earlier.
| Nickname | Kind | Rank 2025 | Girls, 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tate · also for Tatum | Modern | #1,379 | 437 |
Nicknames reviewed by our editors; counts are girls given the nickname as their legal first name. Nobody records how many Taytums go by each one.
Taytum popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #732 | #2,140 | 377 | 68 |
| 2020 | #1,182 | #4,128 | 197 | 25 |
| 2010 | #1,817 | #3,367 | 113 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,265 | — | 42 | — |
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How popular is Taytum, counting every spelling?
Taytum is the most common spelling of a name family that ranked #716 for girls in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #732 for Taytum on its own. Together these spellings went to 395 girls in 2025.
| Spelling | Babies 2025 | Official rank | Babies 2021–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taytum | 377 | #732 | 1,849 |
| Taitum | 18 | #6,521 | 79 |
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Taytum?
377 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Taytum (0.10 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Taytum born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 22 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Taytum.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Taytum?
About 4,000 people born in the US named Taytum are alive today, with a median age of 6; half are between 3 and 14. That makes Taytum a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Taytum by state
How common Taytum was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Idaho (4.7×), Iowa (4.2×), West Virginia (3.9×), Utah (3.2×), Oklahoma (2.9×). It is least common, relative to the national rate, in New Jersey, New York, Mississippi.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Taytum: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Taytum, they share its era and feel.
Middle names for Taytum · Sibling names for Taytum
Questions about the name Taytum
What does Taytum mean?
Taytum means “spelling of Tatum (English place name)” (Old English origin). Certainty: probable.
How popular is the name Taytum?
Taytum was the 732nd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 377 babies. Its best year was 2023, when it ranked 681st with 430 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,081 places. More babies were named Taytum in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Taytum a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 87% girls, 13% boys given the name Taytum in the US.
Where is Taytum most popular?
In 2021–2025, Taytum was most common in Idaho (1.08 per 1,000 girls), followed by South Dakota and Hawaii.