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How popular is “Taran” in the USA?

Number of people named “Taran” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Taran” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Taran” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Taran” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Taran” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Taran” by birth year

This chart shows how “Taran” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 6 7 -8%
1976 16 0.000005273 6 10 -25%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 26 0.000008192 14 12 8%
1979 22 0.000006613 9 13 -18%
1980 15 0.000004355 7 8 -7%
1981 12 0.000003469 6 6 0%
1982 49 0.000013968 38 11 55%
1983 39 0.000011261 32 7 64%
1984 48 0.000013758 32 16 33%
1985 59 0.000016531 53 6 80%
1986 35 0.00000984 22 13 26%
1987 22 0.000006102 10 12 -9%
1988 29 0.000007848 16 13 10%
1989 24 0.000006243 13 11 8%
1990 33 0.000008349 15 18 -9%
1991 48 0.000012323 17 31 -29%
1992 142 0.000036967 25 117 -65%
1993 127 0.000033685 23 104 -64%
1994 121 0.000032547 23 98 -62%
1995 125 0.000034133 30 95 -52%
1996 110 0.00003016 28 82 -49%
1997 84 0.000023168 9 75 -79%
1998 101 0.000027459 10 91 -80%
1999 98 0.00002653 16 82 -67%
2000 58 0.000015344 10 48 -66%
2001 56 0.00001496 6 50 -79%
2002 57 0.000015248 9 48 -68%
2003 65 0.000017095 13 52 -60%
2004 59 0.000015441 9 50 -69%
2005 42 0.000010924 6 36 -71%
2006 64 0.000016177 12 52 -63%
2007 70 0.00001751 5 65 -86%
2008 52 0.000013229 5 47 -81%
2009 55 0.000014397 55 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 41 -100%
2011 47 0.000012849 47 -100%
2012 57 0.000015585 8 49 -72%
2013 41 0.000011246 41 -100%
2014 55 0.000014839 7 48 -75%
2015 45 0.000012159 45 -100%
2016 32 0.000008722 32 -100%
2017 30 0.000008389 30 -100%
2018 43 0.00001223 43 -100%
2019 33 0.000009508 33 -100%
2020 30 0.00000898 30 -100%
2021 31 0.00000915 31 -100%
2022 29 0.000008572 29 -100%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 -100%
2024 31 0.000009314 31 -100%

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