Taryn
About 26,439 American babies have been named Taryn since 1953, most of them around 1985. In 2025 it ranked 3,389th. About 26,000 Taryns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Taryn boys named Taryn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,439
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1985
- Best rank
- 227th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,389th
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 25,698 / 741
How old the living Taryns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,439 babies given the name since 1953, about 26,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 4,700 of them are children and 580 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name
A 20th-century coinage, apparently from Tara combined with names like Karen. In the case of the American actress Taryn Power, derived from her father's given name Tyrone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Taryns
- Taryn Manning (born 1978)American actress, singer and songwriter
- Taryn Terrell (born 1985)American professional wrestler and model
- Taryn Thomas (born 1983)American pornographic actress
- Taryn Power (1953–2020)American actress
- Taryn Southern (born 1986)American actor-singer
- Taryn Woods (born 1975)Australian water polo player
People named Taryn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Taryn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Taryn is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.9×), Colorado (2.1×), Washington (2.0×), Kansas (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1985
The most popular girls’ names the year Taryn peaked:
Taryn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Taryn | 666 | 616th |
| England and Wales boys | Taryn | 77 | 2,318th |
| Scotland girls | Taryn | 19 | 525th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Taryn | 3 | 377th |
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
Taryn 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.