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Tarren vs Taryn

American parents have registered 26,439 Taryns since 1880, against 666 Tarrens. Taryn is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tarren against Taryn, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tarren Taryn

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

Taryn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1970, when Tarren had 5 and Taryn had 59.

Side by side

  Tarren Taryn
Total US births 66626,439
Most in one year 421,144
Babies in 2025 under 553
Estimated living today 65026,000
Median age today 2930
Peak year 19961985
Best rank 2,747th boys227th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,389th
First recorded 19701953
Girls / boys 230 / 43625,698 / 741

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tarren Taryn
England and Wales 29743

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: Tarren and Taryn.