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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Pure

How Popular Is The Name Taran

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Ukrainian : nickname for a man of powerful build, from Polish and Ukrainian taran ‘battering ram’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Ukrainian : either a nickname from Ukrainian taran ‘pock’, or a metonymic occupational name from another meaning of the same word, ‘tool used in a churn for butter making’.

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