Taren — unisex name

What the Data Says About Taren

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,177 babies named Taren between 1953 and 2022, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taren currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 98 babies received it in a single year. Taren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 505 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taren performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 527 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Taren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Taren in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taren 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 1,177 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.