MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tarun mean?
Taruna is the Sanskrit adjective for youth and freshness. It can describe a young person, a new shoot or the newly risen sun, giving the name a broad image of beginnings.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तरुण
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
तरूण
Letter-by-letter: tarūṇa
39,029 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
तरून
Letter-by-letter: tarūna
2,846 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tarun in Indian usage
9,042 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 207 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 8,835 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 244 |
| 1970s | 1,307 |
| 1980s | 3,279 |
| 1990s | 4,085 |
| Other decades | 127 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 6,750 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,734 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 148 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 114 |
| Other states | 296 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, taruṇa, p. 439,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.