Taura
Taura was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 433 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taura?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,316, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1970, the peak
Taura peaked in 1970, when 31 girls were given it, #2,441 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,316 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,553 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,943 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,008 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,259 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,385 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,401 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,261 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,812 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,629 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | #11,169 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,120 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,506 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,250 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,926 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,175 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,995 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,303 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,723 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,497 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,897 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,945 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,955 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,554 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,221 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,393 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,723 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,441 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,092 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,596 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,742 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,746 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taura has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taura, and how old are they?
An estimated 410 Americans named Taura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 41 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 432 people named Taura (427 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 189,534 babies since 1880, Taura is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 350 babies recorded by SSA was a Taura (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 Taura
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 Taura and names like it
- Compare Taura and TaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTaura peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taura since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Taura.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Taura alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.