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Taron

#4,031 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Taron has been given to 2,816 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #4,031 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Taron, 2025

1 in 123,000

Taron over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taron: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taron means

Taron is a given name.

The naming story behind Taron

Wikidata records Taron as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q27642930, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,726 boys were recorded with the name Taron between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,142 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,498 in 2020 to #4,031 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,293 in 2015 to #4,031 in 2025.

In the United States, 90 girls were recorded with the name Taron between 1969 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1982; its best national rank was #3,757 in 1982.

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.

How common is Taron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,031
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taron 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taron was born before 1999 — so the typical Taron is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,726
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (686).

Is Taron 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
+29
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,533
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−738
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.6%
Peak was 2004 (78)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,142
1984

Spellings of Taron

Taron is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 29.7% against Taron's 0.08%.

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 Taron is used

Across 1910–2025, Taron was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 150,557 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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. Taron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taron around the world

Where Taron 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
    #976
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Taron

People whose public names include Taron, 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.

Taron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,031
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,533
Best rank ever
#1,142
1984
Peak year
2004
78 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,726
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,757
1982
Peak year
1982
22 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
90
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taron

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

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Names with a curve like Taron

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

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Sibling names for Taron

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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