Taralee — girls' name
207 babies named Taralee in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
51% of everyone ever named Taralee was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Taralee in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Taralee
The Social Security Administration has registered 207 babies named Taralee between 1960 and 2016, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taralee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Taralee performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Taralee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Taralee in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Taralee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 207 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Taralee at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Taralee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1960
- Peak year (1980)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
207 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 15 births in a single year.
Taralee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 105 births that decade — 51% of Taralee's all-time total
Taralee decade highlights
- Peak decade 105 births
- Runner-up 66 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Taralee's strongest decade
105 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Taralee by state
Where Taralee concentrates geographically — total births since 1960
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 2.4% |
| #2 | Utah | | 5 | 2.4% |
5 of 207 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 2.4% of nationwide
- Utah 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1960–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.