Meaning not yet researched.
Taran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,008 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,008 in 1992; #2,932 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Taran in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,932 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #1,008.
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Taran: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,008 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 117 (1992).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Taran, making it the 2,932nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 749 places from #3,681 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 31 boys named Taran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,008, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #2,713 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Taran in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,043, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taran in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 2,633 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 989 babies named Taran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 327 US boys were named Taran; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Taryn (26,439 babies since 1880), Taron (2,816 babies since 1880), Taurean (2,305 babies since 1880) and Taren (1,689 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Taurian and Taraann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taurian (55), Taraann (54).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Taran in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,932 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,681 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,326 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,864 |
| 2021 | — | — | 31 | #3,642 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,644 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,487 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,838 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,662 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,515 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,713 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,426 | 48 | #2,576 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,840 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,350 | 49 | #2,544 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,621 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,909 |
| 2009 | — | — | 55 | #2,378 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,175 | 47 | #2,672 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,268 | 65 | #2,114 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,852 | 52 | #2,392 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,246 | 36 | #2,952 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,525 | 50 | #2,308 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,443 | 52 | #2,148 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,011 | 48 | #2,219 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,159 | 50 | #2,112 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,814 | 48 | #2,126 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,459 | 82 | #1,430 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,207 | 91 | #1,318 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,732 | 75 | #1,454 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,930 | 82 | #1,332 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,658 | 95 | #1,190 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,508 | 98 | #1,152 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,513 | 104 | #1,103 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,221 | 117 | #1,008 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,642 | 31 | #2,343 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,108 | 18 | #3,447 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,499 | 11 | #4,778 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,290 | 13 | #3,888 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,298 | 12 | #3,933 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,880 | 13 | #3,627 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,043 | 6 | #6,445 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,841 | 16 | #2,939 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,778 | 7 | #5,424 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,526 | 11 | #3,930 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,272 | 6 | #6,162 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,993 | 8 | #4,890 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,261 | 13 | #3,333 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,901 | 12 | #3,377 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,762 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,141 | 10 | #3,691 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,931 | 7 | #4,740 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,165 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #4,022 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,664 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,624 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,553 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,740 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).