Taurus
Taurus is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 785th, in 1976.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1976112 births
- Best rank
- #785in 1976
- Since 1967
- 2,063people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,979 boys have been named Taurus in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1976, with 112 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1970s alone account for 39%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 84 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1976, its biggest year
Taurus was the 785th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1976 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1976.
Names that rose and fell with Taurus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tremaynepeak 1975
- Detrickpeak 1976
- Rahsaanpeak 1973
- Jasenpeak 1979
- Torreypeak 1977
- Dedricpeak 1977
- Demondpeak 1974
- Jasonpeak 1977
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.