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Taran

#2,931 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Thunder

Taran has been given to 2,633 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,931 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 117 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.

Babies named Taran, 2025

1 in 77,100

Taran over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Taran over time

In 2025, Taran went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19672025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Taran: meaning, origin, and history

Thunder

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taran means

Taran means “thunder”.

Origin, language, and formation

Taran is used in English and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Torunn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,073 boys were recorded with the name Taran between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,005 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,641 in 2020 to #2,931 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,712 in 2015 to #2,931 in 2025.

In the United States, 560 girls were recorded with the name Taran between 1967 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1985; its best national rank was #2,042 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taran?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,931
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taran sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taran was born before 2001 — so the typical Taran is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,073
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (793).

Is Taran rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+748
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+710
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−219
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.8%
Peak was 1992 (117)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,005
1992

Spellings of Taran

Taran is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 42.0% against Taran's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Taran is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Taran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 258,752 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Idaho1 in 100,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 100,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 100,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Taran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Taran is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Taran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,907,982 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Taran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taran around the world

Where Taran ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #702
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2021
    #720
    in 2021
  • France
    1998–2014
    #5,815
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Taran

People whose public names include Taran, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Taran by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,931
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 710
Best rank ever
#1,005
1992
Peak year
1992
117 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,073
Count in 2025
43

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,042
1985
Peak year
1985
53 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
560
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taran

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TarekTaronTarikTarunTarynTarasTariqAbranQuranTyranTarenDoranDuranKaranTarellKyranKiranTareqImranCiaranKamranTarranTerranIran

Names with a curve like Taran

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Taran, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ParthDemonteDevontaeMckayDemitriMarquelJaleelDeontaeBladeDejonJavonteTrayvon

Sibling names for Taran

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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