Girl Names Starting With T

Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin T girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.

How common is T as a first letter for girls in 2025?

Count births rather than names and T lands 22nd of the 26 initials for girls in 2025: 0.9% of the top-1,000 total, spread over 18 names. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims none of the table's 50 names, the 101–500 band claims 7, the 501–1,000 band claims 11, and 32 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Taya, still carries 76 births at #2,385; any T girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.

The 2025 T table runs from Tatum at #189 to Taya at #2,385, and Tatum's 1,661 births are 21.9 times Taya's 76; all 50 rows together sum to 14,755 births. The middle row, the 25th, is Tori at #1,337 with 167 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 170 ranks, from Trinity (#428) to Tiana (#598); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 4 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Tamara (#1,816) and Tianna (#1,817), at 111 births each. Tatum at #189 is the closest any T girl name comes to the 2025 overall top 100, which contains none of the 50.

How a rank like #189 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.

T girl names across the decade snapshots

Every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015 has at least one T girl name in its top 200; the count was 6 in 1955 and 2 in 2015. The most T names in a single snapshot was 18 in 1975, led by Tracy at #24 with 8,509 births; the fewest was 2 in 2015. The lead changed hands among 5 names across those 7 snapshots (Teresa, Tammy, Tracy, Tiffany and Taylor), and in 2025 the letter's leader is Tatum, at #189, a name that led no snapshot.

Of the births inside each snapshot's top 200 for girls, T names took 2.5% in 1955, 7.2% in 1965, 7.6% in 1975, 3.4% in 1985, 3.0% in 1995, 1.7% in 2005 and 0.8% in 2015; the largest of those 7 shares is 1975's and the smallest 2015's. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 1 T name with 0.2% of its births, led by Tatum at #189. The move from 2.5% (1955) to 0.8% (2015) is T's row in First-letter trends since 1955, the guide that tabulates all 26 initials for every snapshot year and both sexes, listed with the rest of the data guides.

Faded and new T girl names

Between the snapshots and 2025, 15 T girl names dropped out at the committed depths — each inside some snapshot's top 200, none among the 50 names in the 2025 table. Absent means absent from the 2025 top-50 T list, which stops at Taya (#2,385, 76 births); a faded name may still be registered below that cut.

The 2025 table also carries 39 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Tatum (#189), Talia (#265), Tessa (#311), Teagan (#341), Thea (#353), Tiana (#598), Thalia (#648), Theodora (#726), Taytum (#732), Treasure (#809), Tilly (#885) and Tallulah (#940), and 27 more. Because the committed snapshots stop at rank 200, this says only that Tatum (#189 in 2025) and the other 38 sat outside the top 200 in each of 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, not that they went unregistered in those years.

The shape of the 2025 T list

On the SSA spelling, 13 of the 50 names in the 2025 T table have four letters or fewer, 32 have five to seven, and 5 have eight or more. The 2025 rank spans by length class are 13 short spellings from Thea at #353 to Taya at #2,385; 32 medium spellings from Tatum at #189 to Tasneem at #2,384; and 5 long spellings from Theodora at #726 to Theadora at #2,170. By letter count, Tru is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (3 letters, #974) and Temperance the longest (10 letters, #2,034). "a" is the second letter of 18 of the 50 names in the 2025 T table, "i" of 8, and "h" of 7; 7 second letters are used in total.

Across the sexes, 7 of these 50 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' T list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Tatum (#189 for girls, #202 for boys), Taylor (#403 for girls, #685 for boys), Tru (#974 for girls, #591 for boys), Tate (#1,379 for girls, #194 for boys), True (#1,387 for girls, #1,050 for boys), Toby (#1,923 for girls, #979 for boys) and Tyler (#1,924 for girls, #220 for boys).

T girl names: questions the data answers

What is the most popular girl name starting with T in 2025?

Tatum. The 2025 SSA data records 1,661 girls named Tatum, which places it at #189 among all girl names that year.

How many girl names starting with T are in the 2025 top 1,000?

18. Together they account for 0.9% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 22nd-largest share among the 26 initials.

Why does this page list 50 T girl names?

The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and T fills it: the 50th row is Taya at #2,385. Any T names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.

Which T girl name on this page has the lowest rank?

Taya, at #2,385 with 76 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #189 to #2,385 covers names that start with other letters.

How many T girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?

6 in 1955 (led by Teresa at #26) and 2 in 2015 (led by Taylor at #77). Each snapshot is one SSA year ranked to a depth of 200, and T's highest count among the 7 is 18 in 1975.

Do any of these T girl names also appear on the boys' T list for 2025?

Yes, 7 of the 50: Tatum (#189 for girls, #202 for boys), Taylor (#403 for girls, #685 for boys), Tru (#974 for girls, #591 for boys), Tate (#1,379 for girls, #194 for boys), True (#1,387 for girls, #1,050 for boys), Toby (#1,923 for girls, #979 for boys) and Tyler (#1,924 for girls, #220 for boys). The SSA ranks each sex on its own, which is why Tatum carries #189 with 1,661 births for girls and #202 with 1,736 for boys.

Other letters

Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with T.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.