Taran as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Taran

What is the meaning of the name Taran ?

The baby name Taran is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced ta-RAN.

Taran is Celtic, Pictish, Welsh in Origin.

Taran is a Welsh and Pictish masculine name whose lexical source is Welsh taran, thunder. The word continues a Common Celtic form reconstructed as *toranos, with the -ano- noun formation seen in other early Celtic weather terms; the literal sense is simply thunder. As a personal name it is recorded in early medieval Britain, notably in the Old Welsh and Pictish-looking form Taran.

Historical weight comes from Taran mac Ainftech, a 7th-century king of the Picts in northern Britain. The name is also cognate with Taranis, the Gaulish thunder god known from Roman-period inscriptions, and it appears briefly in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi. Modern readers may know Taran as the protagonist of Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain. In recent naming records it remains uncommon in the United States, while England and Wales have kept it within the lower Top 1000 in many years since the late 1990s.