Taeya

History & Origin

Taeya is a contemporary respelling of Taya, a short, open name used both as a pet form of Taylor and as a Western spelling of the Russian Taisiya. In American use it is mostly a sound-driven coinage, and the -ae- spelling of Taeya simply gives the familiar Taya a more decorative look.

Taeya stayed rare, given to only a few dozen girls a year around its peak in the late nineteen-nineties. A girl named Taeya then is now a young adult, so the name reads as a recent respelling rather than a revival of anything older.