Taran
Taran was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,931 among boys’ names; 2,633 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,570 Americans named Taran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taran mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Taran is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taran?
#2,931 among boys’ names, 2025
Taran fell from #2,712 in 2015 to #2,931 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 23.5 to 25.2 per million.
142 babies in 1992, the peak
Taran peaked in 1992, when 142 babies were given it (117 boys, #1,005 among boys’ names). The 43 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 43 | #2,931 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 31 | #3,679 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 25 | #4,322 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 29 | #3,861 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 31 | #3,638 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 30 | #3,641 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 33 | #3,484 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 43 | #2,837 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 30 | #3,658 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 32 | #3,514 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 45 | #2,712 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,420 | 48 | #2,574 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 41 | #2,838 | |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,343 | 49 | #2,543 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 47 | #2,620 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 41 | #2,908 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 55 | #2,377 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,169 | 47 | #2,671 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,262 | 65 | #2,114 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,848 | 52 | #2,391 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,239 | 36 | #2,948 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,519 | 50 | #2,304 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,438 | 52 | #2,144 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,005 | 48 | #2,215 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,152 | 50 | #2,108 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,806 | 48 | #2,122 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,453 | 82 | #1,427 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,200 | 91 | #1,315 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,727 | 75 | #1,451 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,925 | 82 | #1,330 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,653 | 95 | #1,186 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,503 | 98 | #1,148 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,507 | 104 | #1,099 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,215 | 117 | #1,005 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,636 | 31 | #2,337 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,102 | 18 | #3,441 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,493 | 11 | #4,772 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,285 | 13 | #3,883 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,293 | 12 | #3,928 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,878 | 13 | #3,623 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,042 | 6 | #6,439 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,840 | 16 | #2,938 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,777 | 7 | #5,421 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,526 | 11 | #3,928 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,270 | 6 | #6,160 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,992 | 8 | #4,888 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,259 | 13 | #3,332 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,901 | 12 | #3,376 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,760 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,139 | 10 | #3,689 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,929 | 7 | #4,738 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #5,163 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 8 | #4,020 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,662 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,622 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,551 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,739 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Taran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,633 Americans recorded as Taran, 21% are girls and 79% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taran, and how old are they?
2,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,633 Americans ever recorded as Taran. The median Taran alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,278 people named Taran (569 women and girls, 1,709 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,405 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 987 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 989 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 465 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Taran born?
The states with the most babies named Taran are California, Texas and Michigan, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 185 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 34 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Utah | 19 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Taran with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,220 babies since 1880, Taran is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 101 babies (43%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Taran
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Taran and names like it
- Compare Taran and TaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaran peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taran since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Taran.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taran alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.