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Taurean

#8,174 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Taurean has been given to 2,305 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #8,174 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Taurean, 2025

1 in 332,000

Taurean over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taurean: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taurean means

Taurean is a given name.

The naming story behind Taurean

Wikidata records Taurean as a given name. The entity identifier is Q88939430, 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, 2,260 boys were recorded with the name Taurean between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 1983; its best national rank was #555 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,945 in 2020 to #8,174 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,279 in 2015 to #8,174 in 2025.

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Taurean between 1981 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1983; its best national rank was #4,462 in 1983.

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 Taurean?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,174
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taurean 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taurean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taureans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taurean was born before 1989 — so the typical Taurean is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (1,184).

Is Taurean 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
−1,390
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,229
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,895
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 1983 (231)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#555
1983

Spellings of Taurean

Taurean is not the most common spelling — Thurman is, with 58.8% against Taurean's 8.1%.

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 Taurean is used

Across 1910–2025, Taurean was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 128,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Taurean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Taurean

People whose public names include Taurean, 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.

Taurean by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,174
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,229
Best rank ever
#555
1983
Peak year
1983
231 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,260
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,462
1983
Peak year
1983
17 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taurean

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

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Names with a curve like Taurean

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

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Sibling names for Taurean

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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