girls:
84 births since 1972
#5632 (1st percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1967
#2833 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1967
#5728 (26th percentile)
The name Taurus is the #5,728 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,053 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 26.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,833 (38.2% percentile) for all time with 1,969 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,632 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 1972.
Taurus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1972 for girls).
The name Taurus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Taurus reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #549) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 69 births per million (ranked 16.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Taurus ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Taurus reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #745) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taurus".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Taurus is pronounced as TAW-ruhs, which has 2 syllables.
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