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Tari vs Taron

American parents have registered 2,816 Tarons since 1880, against 2,320 Taris. Taron is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tari against Taron, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tari Taron

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 82 years in which either name was published, Taron for 49 years and Tari for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tari Taron
Total US births 2,3202,816
Most in one year 11878
Babies in 2025 527
Estimated living today 2,0002,700
Median age today 6126
Peak year 19592004
Best rank 971st girls1,653rd boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd3,949th
First recorded 19431963
Girls / boys 2,274 / 4690 / 2,726

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Taris alive today are over 61; half the Tarons are over 26. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tari and Taron.