Given name & surname

Taig

Taig is a given name from Old Irish. It is used in Manx.

Original IrishTadhg

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Taig comes from Old Irish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Taig through the years

Babies since 1880
5
5 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2006
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01232025Highest share 20060.0
Taig in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2006–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Taig’s family of names

In Manx usage, Taig shares a linguistic root with the Irish form Tadhg.

Walk Taig’s family in the name graph

TaigTadhg

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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