Tauno — boys' name
160 babies named Tauno in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
66% of everyone ever named Tauno was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Tauno in 1917 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tauno
The Social Security Administration has registered 160 babies named Tauno between 1913 and 1928, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tauno currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1928. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tauno performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 106 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Tauno shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Tauno in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tauno 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 160 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.
Tauno at a glance
Last recorded 1928Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tauno popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1928–1913
- Peak year (1917)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1928.
160 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1917 with 25 births in a single year.
Tauno by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 106 births that decade — 66% of Tauno's all-time total
Tauno decade highlights
- Peak decade 106 births
- Runner-up 54 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Tauno's strongest decade
106 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 66% of all-time use.
Tauno by state
Where Tauno concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Michigan | | 31 | 19.4% |
| #2 | Massachusetts | | 13 | 8.1% |
| #3 | Minnesota | | 12 | 7.5% |
31 of 160 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Michigan 19.4% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 8.1% of nationwide
- Minnesota 7.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Michigan accounts for 19.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–1928 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.