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Subject: Taryn
Author: Norah   (guest, 140.247.182.79)
Date: March 9, 2001 at 10:08:35 AM
Reply to: Re: what's this name mean by Phyllis
Hi,
taryn is a modern American name. I think it was first used in the 1950s by the actor Tyrone Powers and Linda Christian, his wife. They might have made it up. It's a modern American coinage at any rate, based on names like Tara, Darren, Karen, etc.

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