Taren
Taren was last recorded in 2025, when 7 babies were given it; 1,689 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Taren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 25 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,502, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
104 babies in 1982, the peak
Taren peaked in 1982, when 104 babies were given it (98 girls, #1,301 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,550 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,502 | 5 | #14,093 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,666 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,272 | 7 | #10,467 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,712 | 8 | #9,636 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,297 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 10 | #8,070 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,775 | 7 | #10,599 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,967 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,421 | 8 | #9,522 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,445 | 17 | #5,364 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,649 | 19 | #5,015 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,231 | 23 | #4,337 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,798 | 10 | #8,058 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,345 | 10 | #8,235 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,234 | 17 | #5,457 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,577 | 12 | #7,024 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,832 | 15 | #5,745 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,746 | 23 | #4,042 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,041 | 11 | #6,918 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,705 | 13 | #5,838 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,784 | 12 | #6,029 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,931 | 20 | #4,098 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,530 | 17 | #4,537 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,263 | 20 | #3,813 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,686 | 13 | #5,124 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,986 | 20 | #3,572 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,714 | 20 | #3,532 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,333 | 19 | #3,534 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,778 | 17 | #3,882 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,081 | 17 | #3,792 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,133 | 18 | #3,576 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,312 | 9 | #5,878 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,687 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,315 | 10 | #5,115 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,359 | 6 | #7,150 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,191 | 10 | #4,537 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,110 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,422 | 10 | #4,298 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,810 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,794 | 5 | #7,210 |
| 1982 | 98 | #1,301 | 6 | #6,308 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,990 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,129 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,209 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,184 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,295 | 5 | #6,748 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,586 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,574 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,416 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,313 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,432 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,488 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,367 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,410 | 5 | #4,952 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,974 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,453 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,178 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,693 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,507 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,988 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,320 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,159 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,029 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,890 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,605 | 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 Taren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,689 Americans recorded as Taren, 70% are girls and 30% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Taren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taren, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,689 Americans ever recorded as Taren. The median Taren alive today is 35 years old; half are between 25 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,823 people named Taren (1,340 women and girls, 483 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 183 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 841 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 422 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 136 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 31,399 babies since 1880, Taren is the second most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 60 babies (12%), again the second most given.
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 Taren
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 Taren and names like it
- Compare Taren and TarynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taren since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Taren.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Taren alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.