Taran
Taran reached its high-water mark in 1992 at number 1,004, and has been recorded 2,633 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,884th. About 2,600 Tarans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Taran boys named Taran
Girls and boys called Taran
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Taran crossed from girls to boys in 1990, and has stayed there for 36 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 43 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,633
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 1,004th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,884th
- First recorded
- 1967
- Girls / boys
- 560 / 2,073
How old the living Tarans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,633 babies given the name since 1967, about 2,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 710 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tarans
- Taran Killam (born 1982)American actor and comedian
- Taran mac Ainftech (601–699)King of the Picts
- Taran Adarsh (born 1965)Film critic, journalist, editor, analyst
People named Taran with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Taran is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Taran is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Washington (3.6×), Minnesota (2.6×), Michigan (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular boys’ names the year Taran peaked:
Taran elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Taran | 1,292 | 519th |
| England and Wales girls | Taran | 75 | 2,247th |
| France boys | Taran | 25 | 5,815th |
| Scotland boys | Taran | 7 | 544th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Taran against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.