# Taran (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/taran/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,633 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,073 / 560 (21% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,367, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 28 | 3,930 |
| 1997 | 9 | 9,732 |
| 1998 | 10 | 9,207 |
| 1999 | 16 | 6,459 |
| 2000 | 10 | 9,814 |
| 2001 | 6 | 15,159 |
| 2002 | 9 | 11,011 |
| 2003 | 13 | 8,443 |
| 2004 | 9 | 11,525 |
| 2005 | 6 | 16,246 |
| 2006 | 12 | 9,852 |
| 2007 | 5 | 20,268 |
| 2008 | 5 | 20,175 |
| 2012 | 8 | 13,350 |
| 2014 | 7 | 14,426 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 2,621 |
| 2012 | 49 | 2,544 |
| 2013 | 41 | 2,840 |
| 2014 | 48 | 2,576 |
| 2015 | 45 | 2,713 |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,515 |
| 2017 | 30 | 3,662 |
| 2018 | 43 | 2,838 |
| 2019 | 33 | 3,487 |
| 2020 | 30 | 3,644 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,642 |
| 2022 | 29 | 3,864 |
| 2023 | 25 | 4,326 |
| 2024 | 31 | 3,681 |
| 2025 | 43 | 2,932 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | 2,411 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2000 | 6 | 2,416 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2002 | 5 | 2,868 |
| 2005 | 9 | 2,247 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 41 | 759 |
| 2012 | 53 | 649 |
| 2013 | 46 | 709 |
| 2014 | 30 | 959 |
| 2015 | 42 | 765 |
| 2016 | 29 | 994 |
| 2017 | 34 | 906 |
| 2018 | 25 | 1,097 |
| 2019 | 56 | 634 |
| 2020 | 29 | 962 |
| 2021 | 36 | 854 |
| 2022 | 30 | 993 |
| 2023 | 43 | 770 |
| 2024 | 45 | 757 |
| 2025 | 50 | 702 |

## People named Taran

- Taran Killam, American actor and comedian
- Taran Adarsh, Film critic, journalist, editor, analyst (born 1965)
- Taran Noah Smith, American actor and businessman
- Taran Grant, Canadian herpetologist at the University of São Paulo, Brazil

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.