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Taron vs Tarrell

American parents have registered 2,816 Tarons since 1880, against 799 Tarrells. Taron is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taron against Tarrell, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taron Tarrell

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 64 years in which either name was published, Taron for 62 years and Tarrell for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taron Tarrell
Total US births 2,816799
Most in one year 7835
Babies in 2025 27under 5
Estimated living today 2,700760
Median age today 2634
Peak year 20041987
Best rank 1,653rd boys1,829th boys
Rank in 2025 3,949thunranked
First recorded 19631962
Girls / boys 90 / 2,72611 / 788

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 Tarrells alive today are over 34; half the Tarons are over 26. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Taron Tarrell
England and Wales 3496

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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