Taryn
Masculine
Taryn is given to girls far more often — 25,698 girls against 741 boys since 1880. See Taryn as a girl name
Most names have no first bearer on record. Taryn has one. Tyrone Power and Linda Christian named their second daughter Taryn in 1953, and the name is generally traced to that birth. It is a rare thing to be able to date a name to a specific family in a specific year.
How old is the name Taryn?
Taryn first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Taryn alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 700 people named Taryn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taryn most popular?
Taryn peaked in 1996, reaching #2535 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 6,375 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Taryn
The value of a name with a known first bearer is that it lets you watch diffusion rather than infer it. Taryn is absent from the American record before the early 1950s, appears in small numbers afterwards, and grows slowly for two decades, which is what genuine person-to-person diffusion looks like: nothing like the one-year spike a hit record produces, and nothing like the long shallow climb of an inherited name coming back into fashion. It also crossed into small male use later, which unisex names built on male-sounding elements often do in the other direction. Very few names offer this. Wendy is the other famous case, largely created by Barrie's Peter Pan in 1904, and Vanessa, invented by Swift in 1713. Most names simply have no beginning that anyone recorded.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Taryn has no inherited etymology and no source language. It is usually traced to Taryn Power, born 1953, whose parents appear to have coined it; a connection to her father's name, Tyrone, is often suggested and is plausible on the sounds but is not documented. Glosses giving it as Irish or Greek are not supported by anything in either language. The American male peak is 1996, well after the female use was established.
Pronouncing Taryn
TAIR-in
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some speakers say TAR-in with the a of car. Taryn, Taren and Tarin are homophones.
Nicknames for Taryn
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1959
- Most boys named
- 200136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2535reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%8 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Taryn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Taren in English — spelling variant
- Tarin in English — spelling variant
Taryns among us
people named Taryn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Taryn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Fernandez test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Taryn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Fernandez climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Fernandez's path sketches the road Taryn is walking now.
Taryn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Taryn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Taryn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Its origin is datable to a single year, which almost no name is.
- Two syllables with an easy, familiar shape.
- It works in both male and female use.
- It is read as a woman's name by most Americans.
- The first vowel has two pronunciations.
- It has no meaning in any language, and glosses claiming otherwise are invented.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taryns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Taryn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Taryn in 2025?
- Taryn ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Taryn?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Taryn — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Taryn with classmates?
- Taryn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Taryn
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