Taran — #3625 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Taran

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,030 babies named Taran between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Taran currently holds the #3625 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 117 babies received it in a single year. Taran is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 560 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taran performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 793 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Taran shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 180 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Taran in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taran 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 2,030 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.