Tarus vs Taryn
American parents have registered 26,439 Taryns since 1880, against 534 Taruses. Taryn is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tarus 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 1973, when Tarus had 24 and Taryn had 50.
Side by side
| Tarus | Taryn | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 534 | 26,439 |
| Most in one year | 40 | 1,144 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 53 |
| Estimated living today | 500 | 26,000 |
| Median age today | 45 | 30 |
| Peak year | 1976 | 1985 |
| Best rank | 1,411th boys | 227th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 3,389th |
| First recorded | 1965 | 1953 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 534 | 25,698 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Taruses alive today are over 45; half the Taryns are over 30. That is 15 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: Tarus and Taryn.