Taryn
Taryn is given to both girls and boys: 45 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,448 among girls’ names and #9,601 among boys’, #5,464 among all names counting both); 26,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,700 Americans named Taryn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taryn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taryn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Taryn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
A 20th-century coinage, apparently from Tara combined with names like Karen. In the case of the American actress Taryn Power, derived from her father’s given name Tyrone.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taryn?
#3,448 among girls’ names, 2025
Taryn fell from #1,064 in 2015 to #3,448 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.03 per 1,000.
1,144 babies in 1985, the peak
Taryn peaked in 1985, when 1,144 babies were given it (1,135 girls, #227 among girls’ names). The 53 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,448 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,530 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,333 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,226 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,170 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,677 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 146 | #1,504 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 202 | #1,202 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,157 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 249 | #1,064 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 322 | #859 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 372 | #735 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 335 | #803 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 398 | #701 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 444 | #660 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 529 | #577 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 641 | #494 | 0.34 |
| 2007 | 694 | #465 | 0.36 |
| 2006 | 717 | #446 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 666 | #456 | 0.36 |
| 2004 | 725 | #421 | 0.39 |
| 2003 | 662 | #453 | 0.36 |
| 2002 | 605 | #469 | 0.34 |
| 2001 | 628 | #442 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 633 | #448 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 576 | #462 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 606 | #436 | 0.34 |
| 1997 | 653 | #402 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 674 | #393 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 620 | #416 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 613 | #410 | 0.34 |
| 1993 | 713 | #357 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 692 | #370 | 0.38 |
| 1991 | 622 | #411 | 0.33 |
| 1990 | 807 | #335 | 0.43 |
| 1989 | 755 | #337 | 0.41 |
| 1988 | 668 | #365 | 0.38 |
| 1987 | 613 | #382 | 0.35 |
| 1986 | 740 | #327 | 0.43 |
| 1985 | 1,135 | #227 | 0.66 |
| 1984 | 521 | #407 | 0.31 |
| 1983 | 359 | #529 | 0.21 |
| 1982 | 451 | #467 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 230 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 273 | #661 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 302 | #598 | 0.19 |
| 1978 | 462 | #433 | 0.30 |
| 1977 | 537 | #392 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 284 | #578 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 453 | #438 | 0.31 |
| 1974 | 130 | #959 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,768 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,720 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 87 | #1,278 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,617 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,168 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,644 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,846 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,666 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,499 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 36 | #2,004 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,458 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,592 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 65 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 83 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 175 | #771 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,217 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 72 | #1,244 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 116 | #938 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 106 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taryn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 26,439 Americans recorded as Taryn, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taryn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taryn, and how old are they?
25,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 26,439 Americans ever recorded as Taryn. The median Taryn alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 23,866 people named Taryn (23,290 women and girls, 576 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 25,391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 752 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,270 |
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 Taryn born?
The states with the most babies named Taryn are California, Texas and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,913 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,914 | #3,255 | 0.8× |
| New York | 1,495 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,219 | #1,609 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,019 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 988 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 963 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 914 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 742 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 734 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Taryn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taryn is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1953 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Taryn 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 31,399 babies since 1880, Taryn is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 60 babies (88%), again the 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 Taryn
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 Taryn and names like it
- Compare Taryn and TarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTaryn peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taryn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Taryn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Taryn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Taryn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.