The origin of the English modern name Taryn is not known. It is suggested that it is a feminine form of Tyrone, a place name in Northern Ireland. In Gaelic, it was called Tir Eoghain meaning ‘land of Eoghan’.
Taryn is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Taryn is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,070 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,069 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 22,740 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Taryn. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The origin of the English modern name Taryn is not known. It is suggested that it is a feminine form of Tyrone, a place name in Northern Ireland. In Gaelic, it was called Tir Eoghain meaning ‘land of Eoghan’.
Actor Tyrone Power, famous... in the 1940s, named his daughter Taryn, born in 1953. She was one of the first to bear this name.
Taryn is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Taryn - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 222 in 1985. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Taryn really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Taryn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
89 babies were named Taryn in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,764,665 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Taryn ranked 1,923 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Taryn is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Taryn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Taryn, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Rocket
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Taryn
Taryn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
R
Y
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
R
Y
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Taryn sounds like this:
