Taurus
Taurus was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,137 among boys’ names; 2,075 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Taurus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 27 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taurus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taurus?
#7,137 among boys’ names, 2025
Taurus fell from #5,712 in 2015 to #7,137 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 7.0 per million.
126 babies in 1976, the peak
Taurus peaked in 1976, when 126 babies were given it (112 boys, #785 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,137 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,247 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,673 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,720 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,311 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,439 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,772 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #6,003 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,073 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,093 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,712 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,580 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,366 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,688 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,635 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,443 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,074 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,040 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,880 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,983 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,801 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,392 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,711 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,079 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,727 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,907 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,501 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,840 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,494 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,286 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,047 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,747 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,200 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,578 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,531 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,246 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,341 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,424 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,261 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,829 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,167 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,792 | 17.7 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,626 | 20.6 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,275 | 29.8 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,196 | 33.5 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,122 | 37.0 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,033 | 43.0 |
| 1978 | 99 | #868 | 60.3 |
| 1977 | 95 | #872 | 57.8 |
| 1976 | 112 | #785 | 71.4 |
| 1975 | 106 | #810 | 67.9 |
| 1974 | 103 | #792 | 65.5 |
| 1973 | 87 | #851 | 55.8 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,039 | 37.6 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,778 | 14.7 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,280 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,404 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,675 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,751 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taurus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,075 Americans recorded as Taurus, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taurus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taurus, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,075 Americans ever recorded as Taurus. The median Taurus alive today is 44 years old; half are between 27 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,444 people named Taurus (103 women and girls, 1,341 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 864 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 167 |
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 Taurus born?
The states with the most babies named Taurus are Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 134 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 120 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 118 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 50 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 47 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 46 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 21 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Taurus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taurus is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1967 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 boys’ 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 Taurus 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 3,766 babies since 1880, Taurus is the most given (55% of them).
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 Taurus
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 Taurus and names like it
- Compare Taurus and TarasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTaurus peaked in 1976.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taurus since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Taurus.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Taurus alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.