Taras

boys:

660 births since 1922

#3927 (14th percentile)

overall:

660 births since 1922

#7079 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Taras is the #7,079 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 660 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,927 (14.3% percentile) for all time with 660 births since 1922.

Taras first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (first recorded for boys in 1922). Birth data for Taras is available in 65 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Taras reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #629) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Taras ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 27.7% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taras".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
660
Peak Births
36
Peak Year
1969
First Recorded
1922
Peak Percentile
4.7%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#629
Current Rank
#906
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Taras

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Taras. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 47.6% confident that Taras is pronounced as TAH-ruhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEH-ruhs, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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TAH-ruhs (2 syllables)
47.6% confidence
T AA1 R AH0 S
TEH-ruhs (2 syllables)
31.0% confidence
T EH1 R AH0 S
TAH-ruhz (2 syllables)
Verified
14.3% confidence
T AA1 R AH0 Z
ter-UHS (2 syllables)
7.1% confidence
T ER0 AH1 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like T AA1 R AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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