Meaning not yet researched.
Taurus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #785 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #785 in 1976; #7,141 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Taurus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,141 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #785.
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Taurus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #785 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 112 (1976).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Taurus, making it the 7,141st most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,111 places from #8,252 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 10 boys named Taurus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #785, reached in 1976. That year also had the most boys given the name: 112. For comparison, it was #5,716 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taurus in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 10 babies. In all, 2,075 US babies have been given the name, 4.0% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 857 babies named Taurus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 122 US boys were named Taurus; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Taras, Tarus and Tarius 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taras (671), Tarus (534), Tarius (231), Taris (163), Tarris (92), Tauris (25), Taraus (17), Tarrus (12), Tauras (10), Tarrius (5), Taurius (5).
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 Taurus 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 | — | — | 12 | #7,141 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,252 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,678 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,726 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,316 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,444 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,777 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #6,007 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #8,077 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #7,098 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,716 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,585 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,370 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,694 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,637 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,446 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,076 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,882 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,985 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,805 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,397 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,716 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,083 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,732 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,913 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,505 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,843 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,498 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,291 |
| 1995 | — | — | 41 | #2,052 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,752 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,205 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,584 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,537 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,251 |
| 1989 | — | — | 29 | #2,347 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,429 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,265 |
| 1986 | — | — | 34 | #1,831 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,168 |
| 1984 | — | — | 32 | #1,793 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,627 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,276 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,998 | 60 | #1,196 |
| 1980 | — | — | 66 | #1,122 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,087 | 74 | #1,033 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,440 | 99 | #868 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,838 | 95 | #872 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,591 | 112 | #785 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,131 | 106 | #810 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,695 | 103 | #792 |
| 1973 | — | — | 87 | #851 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,210 | 61 | #1,039 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,779 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,281 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,405 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,677 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,752 |
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).