In 2025, 45 US girls were named Taryn, making it the 3,449th most common girls’ name of the year, down 919 places from #2,530 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 71 girls named Taryn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #227, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,135. For comparison, it was #1,064 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Taryn, making it the 9,605th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,355 places from #8,250 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 10 boys named Taryn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,586, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 36, in 2001. For comparison, it was #7,023 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taryn in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 12 babies. In all, 26,439 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,780 babies named Taryn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,207 US girls were named Taryn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Taron (2,816 babies since 1880), Taran (2,633 babies since 1880) and Taren (1,689 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tarin, Tarun and Tarryn are summarised on this page.