Taaffe
Taaffe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Viscount Taaffe Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford, Irish-born courtier and soldier in England Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford, Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe (1685–1769), Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine and Austria Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe…
Meaning & Origin of Taaffe
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Taaffe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Viscount Taaffe Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford, Irish-born courtier and soldier in England Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford, Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe (1685–1769), Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine and Austria Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe…
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The Story of Taaffe
Taaffe first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1978, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1978: 7 births, good for #7,650 nationwide. Taaffe last appeared in the published SSA data in 1978, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 7 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Taaffe
Taaffe is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1978 and has accumulated 7 births in the dataset. Taaffe's peak popularity came in 1978 when it ranked #7,650. Use the chart and map above to compare Taaffe's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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