Taralynn — girls' name
431 babies named Taralynn in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Taralynn was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Taralynn in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Taralynn
The Social Security Administration has registered 431 babies named Taralynn between 1971 and 2020, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taralynn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Taralynn performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Taralynn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Taralynn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Taralynn 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 431 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.
Taralynn at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Taralynn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1971
- Peak year (1988)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
431 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 20 births in a single year.
Taralynn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 117 births that decade — 27% of Taralynn's all-time total
Taralynn decade highlights
- Peak decade 117 births
- Runner-up 90 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Taralynn's strongest decade
117 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Taralynn by state
Where Taralynn concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 431 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.2% 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, 1971–2020 (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.