Boys' name · since 2007
Tarzan
Tarzan has 22 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,403 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #10,292 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
22 babies have been named Tarzan since 2007, making it today's #10292 boys' name.
Tarzan has 22 recorded births among boys since 2007, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10292 as of the latest data, more common than 26% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #28,403 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #10,292 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 22 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tarzan ranks #28,403 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,292 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 22 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,403 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #10,292 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Tarzan's 22 recorded births place it above 37.4% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Tarzan compares
22 9th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Tarzan's all-time total is 94% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Tarzan | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 22 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 34 | 22,252 |
Tarzan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Tarzan splits its recorded history at 2024: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2007 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Tarzan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Tarzan by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (12 births, 55% of the file).
2020s was Tarzan's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Tarzan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (55% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tarzan: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~18 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tarzan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.