Taro
Taro reached its high-water mark in 1997 at number 4,668, and has been recorded 368 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 320 Taros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Taro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 368
- Estimated living today
- 320
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 4,668th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1919
How old the living Taros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 368 babies given the name since 1919, about 320 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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 Taros
- Tarō Asō (born 1940)Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
- Katsura Tarō (1848–1913)Japanese general and politician
- Taro Kagawa (1922–1990)Japanese association football player
- Taro Kono (born 1963)Japanese politician
- Taro Goto (born 1969)Japanese association football player
- Taro Hasegawa (born 1979)Japanese association football player
- Taro Sugimoto (born 1996)Japanese association football player
- Taro Daniel (born 1993)Japanese tennis player
People named Taro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Taro is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular boys’ names the year Taro peaked:
Taro elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Taro | 74 | 510th |
| England and Wales boys | Taro | 50 | 2,418th |
| Belgium boys | Taro | 5 | 1,207th |
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.
Taro: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Taro | 73 | 0.006% | 376th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Taro | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Taro: rank by region
In 2004, Taro was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Taro | 778 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Taro by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 535th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Taro among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Taro | 44 | 58 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Taro 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.