# Taha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/taha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,424 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,424 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,259, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 96 | 1,608 |
| 2012 | 97 | 1,615 |
| 2013 | 91 | 1,668 |
| 2014 | 107 | 1,512 |
| 2015 | 75 | 1,948 |
| 2016 | 79 | 1,888 |
| 2017 | 86 | 1,790 |
| 2018 | 73 | 2,013 |
| 2019 | 72 | 2,038 |
| 2020 | 72 | 1,994 |
| 2021 | 66 | 2,170 |
| 2022 | 85 | 1,872 |
| 2023 | 79 | 1,966 |
| 2024 | 96 | 1,733 |
| 2025 | 107 | 1,598 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 57 | 602 |
| 2012 | 52 | 654 |
| 2013 | 62 | 570 |
| 2014 | 56 | 616 |
| 2015 | 45 | 727 |
| 2016 | 57 | 621 |
| 2017 | 46 | 743 |
| 2018 | 41 | 786 |
| 2019 | 49 | 686 |
| 2020 | 54 | 640 |
| 2021 | 40 | 805 |
| 2022 | 49 | 688 |
| 2023 | 49 | 704 |
| 2024 | 52 | 691 |
| 2025 | 76 | 507 |

## People named Taha

- Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)
- Taha Ismail, Egyptian footballer and coach
- Taha Jabir Alalwani, academic
- Taha Habroune, American soccer player
- Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, former official spokesman for IS (1977–2016)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.