Tarren
Tarren was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 666 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tarren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tarren is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tarren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,859, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1996, the peak
Tarren peaked in 1996, when 42 babies were given it (27 boys, #2,820 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,859 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,585 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,817 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,825 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,686 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,625 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 11 | #7,443 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 7 | #10,620 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 13 | #6,762 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,639 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | under 5 | 13 | #6,567 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 15 | #5,746 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,369 | 6 | #11,302 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,651 | 11 | #6,919 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,356 | 15 | #5,229 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 19 | #4,302 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 16 | #4,858 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 14 | #5,262 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 25 | #3,265 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,284 | 27 | #3,003 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,723 | 16 | #4,207 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,355 | 27 | #2,820 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,994 | 14 | #4,474 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,728 | 18 | #3,730 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,674 | 21 | #3,231 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,019 | 11 | #5,184 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,163 | 13 | #4,446 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,258 | 8 | #6,341 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,913 | 11 | #4,773 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,325 | 5 | #8,368 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,294 | 10 | #4,538 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,694 | 6 | #6,630 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,717 | 6 | #6,441 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,859 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,862 | 5 | #7,212 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,758 | 7 | #5,556 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,683 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,570 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,357 |
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 Tarren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 666 Americans recorded as Tarren, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tarren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarren, and how old are they?
An estimated 647 Americans named Tarren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 663 people named Tarren (278 women and girls, 385 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 653 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,220 babies since 1880, Tarren is the fifth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 101 babies recorded by SSA was a Tarren (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tarren
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 Tarren and names like it
- Compare Tarren and TaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTarren peaked in 1996.
- Washington’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tarren since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Tarren.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tarren alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.