girls:
90 births since 1969
#5626 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1963
#2441 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1963
#5133 (34th percentile)
The name Taron is the #5,133 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,762 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 33.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,441 (46.7% percentile) for all time with 2,672 births since 1963. For girls, it ranks #5,626 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 90 births since 1969.
Taron first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Taron is available in 60 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023 (59 years for boys and 12 years for girls). 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.
The name Taron has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Taron reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #774) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 37 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Taron ranks #868 for boys (4.7% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 71.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Taron reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taron".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Taron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.7% confident that Taron is pronounced as TEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TA-ruhn, at 35.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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