The baby name Taruni is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tah-ROO-nee,/təˈruːni/.
The baby name Taruni is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tah-ROO-nee,/təˈruːni/.
Taruni is Indian, Sanskrit in Origin.
Taruni is a feminine given name from Sanskrit taruṇī (तरुणी), the feminine form of taruṇa, meaning “young, youthful,” and by extension “maiden.” It carries imagery of freshness, beauty, and the vitality of spring. The root is productive across Indo‑Aryan and Dravidian languages, so Taruni appears in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Nepali, and Tamil (தருணி) with similar pronunciation and sense.
The word taruṇī is frequent in classical Sanskrit kāvya and later vernacular poetry to denote a young woman, which encouraged its adoption as a modern given name across India and the diaspora. Spelling variants include Tarunee and, less commonly, Tarooni; Taru is a familiar nickname. Related names are Tarun/Taruna (masculine; “youthful”) and, in some communities, Taruna as a feminine form. Note: Taruni is distinct from Tarini (an epithet meaning “she who saves”), despite their phonetic similarity.
Taruni is a rare find. There are only 26 recorded uses of it in our data, from 11 countries.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JO | Girls | 0 | #339 | 1 | 7,570 |
| QA | Girls | 0 | #343 | 1 | 15,378 |
| BD | Girls | 0 | #406 | 1 | 8,413 |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #424 | 1 | 15,987 |
| RU | Girls | 0 | #522 | 2 | 11,913 |
| BH | 0 | #587 | 1 | 17,937 | |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #621 | 11 | 13,121 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #632 | 1 | 18,916 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,014 | 1 | 25,931 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #1,037 | 3 | 16,750 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,143 | 1 | 22,615 |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,272 | 1 | 25,619 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,691 | 1 | 28,008 |
Taruni is popular in 11 countries — most recent births per country:
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