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Taron vs Tarra

American parents have registered 2,816 Tarons since 1880, against 2,295 Tarras. Taron is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taron Tarra

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 70 years in which either name was published, Taron for 37 years and Tarra for 33 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Taron Tarra
Total US births 2,8162,295
Most in one year 78118
Babies in 2025 27under 5
Estimated living today 2,7002,200
Median age today 2644
Peak year 20041972
Best rank 1,653rd boys1,000th girls
Rank in 2025 3,949thunranked
First recorded 19631955
Girls / boys 90 / 2,7262,295 / 0

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 Tarras alive today are over 44; half the Tarons are over 26. That is 18 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: Taron and Tarra.