Taran
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #13,069 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 78.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 117 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,073since 1971
Taran over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,605 | 31 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,220 | 25 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,774 | 29 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,582 | 31 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,570 | 30 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,426 | 33 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,796 | 43 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,586 | 30 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,441 | 32 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,684 | 45 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,542 | 48 |
| 2013 | — | #2,804 | 41 | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | — | #2,590 | 47 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,874 | 41 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,348 | 55 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #2,094 | 65 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #2,375 | 52 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #2,283 | 50 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #2,128 | 52 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #2,195 | 48 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #1,421 | 82 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #1,438 | 75 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #1,321 | 82 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #1,187 | 95 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #1,146 | 98 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #1,097 | 104 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | #1,004 | 117 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,021 | 53 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #2,721 | 32 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Taran! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Taran is popular in 1971
No state had 5 or more boys named Taran in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Taran
- 721 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #2,884)
- 686 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #2,884)
- 200 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1992 at #1,004 (117 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,072 boys born in 1992 were named Taran (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.3% of all boys named Taran (793) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1989, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 76 | #3,168 (1979) | #3,997 |
| 1980s | 103 | #2,824 (1984) | #4,257 |
| 1990s | 793 | #1,004 (1992) | #1,552 |
| 2000s | 503 | #2,086 (2001) | #2,313 |
| 2010s | 409 | #2,517 (2012) | #2,926 |
| 2020s | 189 | #2,884 (2025) | #3,606 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Taran in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 196,494 of them was named Taran, which outranked 40.4% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,146Winthrop10
- #3,146Wray10
- #3,146Zebedee10
- #3,370Taran9
- #3,370Able9
- #3,370Aden9
- #3,370Adi9
- #3,658Aaren8
- #3,658Abu8
- #3,658Adarryl8
Tied with 287 names at #3,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.