Meanings
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven[…]
2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You1 more example
BACK in the summer of 2007, Ben Mickus, a New York architect, had a bad feeling. He and his wife, Taryn, had invested in the stock market and had done well, but now that they had reached their goal of about $200,000 for a down payment on a house, Mr. Mickus was unsettled.
2009 February 26, Roy Furchgott, “You’ve Sold Your Stocks. Now What?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
Origin
A 20th-century coinage, apparently from Tara combined with names like Karen. In the case of the American actress Taryn Power, derived from her father's given name Tyrone.
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Taryn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taryn
“Taryn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taryn. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Taryn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taryn.
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