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Tarun

#11,832 in 2025Boys' name

Young, through तरुण

Tarun has been given to 848 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #11,832 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Tarun, 2025

1 in 553,000

Tarun over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarun: meaning, origin, and history

Young, through तरुण

Sanskrit

What Tarun means

Tarun belongs to the name family reached through Tarun → तरुण. Its meaning is “young”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tarun is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Tarun comes through Sanskrit तरुण.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include तरुण.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 848 boys were recorded with the name Tarun between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,119 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,650 in 2020 to #11,832 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,277 in 2015 to #11,832 in 2025.

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 Tarun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,832
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarun 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taruns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarun was born before 2007 — so the typical Tarun is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
848
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Choose a decade

2000s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (419).

Is Tarun 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
−1,035
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,182
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,555
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.5%
Peak was 2007 (63)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,119
2003

Spellings of Tarun

Tarun is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 71.1% against Tarun's 0.10%.

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 Tarun is used

Across 1910–2025, Tarun was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 271,141 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Tarun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tarun around the world

Where Tarun 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1996–2015
    #1,958
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Tarun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,832
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,182
Best rank ever
#2,119
2003
Peak year
2007
63 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
848
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Tarun

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

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Sibling names for Tarun

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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