Fun Facts About the Name Taytum
- More than 4 thousand babies named Taytum: U.S. records list 4,616 babies given the name Taytum from 1880 through 2025. Even 620 boys received the name Taytum - about 1 boy for every 6 girls.
What Does the Name Taytum Mean?
Taytum is a spelling of the English surname Tatum, which is also used as a given name, and it carries the surname's meaning: "Tata's homestead." The surname is habitational, taken from Tatham, a village in the Lune valley of Lancashire, England. The place name is usually explained as the Old English personal name Tata joined with hām, "homestead, village, estate," so the literal sense is a farm or settlement associated with a man called Tata. It describes a place and its holder rather than a quality or trait.
Reference works differ slightly on Tatum as a surname: it is most often treated as a variant of Tatham, while some list it separately among English surnames whose origin is not firmly settled. The y in Taytum is a respelling only; it does not come from a different root and does not add a second meaning.
Taytum Name History & Origins
Habitational surnames became common in England in the centuries after the Norman Conquest, as people were increasingly identified by the village or manor they came from. A family from Tatham in north Lancashire could be recorded with the Latin preposition de before the place name, and the name then passed down as a hereditary surname. Tatum is one of the recorded English spellings of that surname, alongside Tatham and Tatem.
Tatum came into American given-name use in the 20th century along with many other surnames turned into first names; the surname is widely known in the United States through figures such as the jazz pianist Art Tatum. The spelling Taytum is a later respelling of the given name, in which y stands in for the a without changing the pronunciation. It belongs to the common modern American practice of distinguishing one written form of a name from another while both are said the same way.
How Popular is the Name Taytum?
Taytum recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2023. Its best rank was #680 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #732 | 377 | 0.0235% |
| 2024 | #715 | 392 | 0.0243% |
| 2023 | #680 | 430 | 0.0268% |
| 2022 | #771 | 370 | 0.0226% |
| 2021 | #947 | 279 | 0.0170% |
| 2020 | #1,181 | 197 | 0.0122% |
| 2019 | #1,293 | 178 | 0.0106% |
| 2018 | #1,613 | 133 | 0.0078% |
| 2017 | #1,941 | 104 | 0.0060% |
| 2016 | #2,126 | 92 | 0.0052% |
| 2015 | #1,812 | 116 | 0.0065% |
| 2014 | #1,589 | 136 | 0.0076% |
| 2013 | #1,724 | 121 | 0.0069% |
| 2012 | #1,516 | 147 | 0.0083% |
| 2011 | #1,907 | 105 | 0.0060% |
| 2010 | #1,817 | 113 | 0.0064% |
| 2009 | #2,241 | 88 | 0.0048% |
| 2008 | #2,121 | 96 | 0.0051% |
| 2007 | #2,681 | 69 | 0.0036% |
| 2006 | #2,723 | 66 | 0.0035% |
| 2005 | #2,358 | 76 | 0.0041% |
| 2004 | #3,066 | 51 | 0.0028% |
| 2003 | #3,344 | 44 | 0.0024% |
| 2002 | #4,490 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2001 | #3,360 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2000 | #3,265 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 1999 | #3,441 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 1998 | #3,908 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 1997 | #8,968 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #10,472 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1995 | #9,487 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #13,281 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #15,383 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,140 | 68 | 0.0040% |
| 2024 | #2,147 | 69 | 0.0040% |
| 2023 | #2,798 | 46 | 0.0027% |
| 2022 | #2,553 | 54 | 0.0031% |
| 2021 | #2,766 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2020 | #4,128 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2019 | #3,626 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2018 | #3,781 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2017 | #4,217 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2016 | #6,679 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #3,867 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2014 | #3,524 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2013 | #4,049 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2012 | #4,667 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2011 | #3,592 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2010 | #3,367 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2009 | #6,393 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #7,139 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #13,800 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2005 | #13,152 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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