Taras
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 671since 1922
Taras over time
Rank among boys' names. Taras has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #1,989 | 20 |
| 1969 | #1,326 | 36 |
| 1968 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #2,470 | 11 |
| 1966 | #1,723 | 20 |
| 1965 | #1,513 | 26 |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1963 | #2,044 | 16 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,322 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #2,530 | 11 |
| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #2,764 | 9 |
| 1954 | #2,316 | 12 |
| 1953 | #1,958 | 16 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #2,246 | 12 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Taras! It came in at #4,307, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1950, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Taras is popular in 1969
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,044 · 1 in 28,965
Best ever in a state: #581 in Pennsylvania, 1953.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #1,044 | 6 | 1 in 28,965 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Taras
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
- 14 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #12,008)
- 78 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1969 at #1,326 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 49,672 boys born in 1969 were named Taras (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.2% of all boys named Taras (169) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,210 (1927) | #4,259 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 102 | #1,958 (1953) | #2,669 |
| 1960s | 169 | #1,326 (1969) | #2,146 |
| 1970s | 120 | #1,989 (1970) | #3,190 |
| 1980s | 54 | #4,593 (1982) | #5,352 |
| 1990s | 65 | #4,508 (1995) | #6,102 |
| 2000s | 77 | #6,763 (2008) | #8,093 |
| 2010s | 42 | #7,087 (2010) | #10,086 |
| 2020s | 32 | #7,738 (2023) | #10,714 |
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.
Taras in 1969
Top boys' names in 1969
More about 1969
boys
1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 49,672 of them was named Taras, which outranked 73.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,302Tyree37
- #1,302Vernell37
- #1,302Wardell37
- #1,326Taras36
- #1,326Ahmed36
- #1,326Antwon36
- #1,326Artis36
- #1,351Allyn35
- #1,351Alphonse35
- #1,351Bertrand35
Tied with 24 names at #1,326; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 449Artis#877 → #1,326
- ↓ 410Kennedy#986 → #1,396
- ↓ 408Alfie#968 → #1,376
- ↓ 360Micky#861 → #1,221
- ↓ 356Montgomery#946 → #1,302
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.