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My name is Taryn. I love my name. It’s pronounced TAR (as in asphalt) -in. Just Tar for short. I was named after my awesome great grandmother who was born in NYC in 1914 to Welsh immigrants. Her parents intended her name to be an alternate spelling of Taran, which is a Welsh name that means “thunder.” I met a Taryn whose name was intended to be a combination of Tara and Lynn, her aunts’ names. One of my professors created an entire faerie tale and made-up meaning around the name Taryn to name her daughter after. I love that so much. I don’t think the name Taryn is a name in its own right or has a definitive meaning. So, I think the meaning of Taryn is whatever the name-givers intend it to mean. (Which goes for any name, really. Anything can mean anything. It’s all about intention. Imagination.) I hope this is helpful.
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I received my name Taryn from a lady who shared a hospital room with my mother in Massachusetts in 1967 at a woman's hospital. The lady was Portuguese... truth be told NO one knows the true meaning of the name Taryn... but it is pretty and I get a LOT of people who say they love it. One of my dentist's named his daughter Taryn.
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Absolutely horrid name, but that's not the point.
I don't think it should be linked to Tara for many reasons. Maybe when Tara became popular as a name, people came up with Taryn, but historically... no...
The Welsh word for thunder is taranau. So, erm... no.
Furthermore, there is NO evidence that Taryn is anything other than a made up name... It sure as HELL isn't Latin or anything other than a made up English name... and those "meanings" cited on the wiki page that anyone can edit? They're made up too.
It's a bit like saying Neveah (a similar trashy, made-up name) means 'beautiful sylph' and is ancient Aramaic.
You're fooling nobody, and making meanings up for a name doesn't make it so.
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I don't think it should be linked to Tara for many reasons. Maybe when Tara became popular as a name, people came up with Taryn, but historically... no...
The Welsh word for thunder is taranau. So, erm... no.
Furthermore, there is NO evidence that Taryn is anything other than a made up name... It sure as HELL isn't Latin or anything other than a made up English name... and those "meanings" cited on the wiki page that anyone can edit? They're made up too.
It's a bit like saying Neveah (a similar trashy, made-up name) means 'beautiful sylph' and is ancient Aramaic.
You're fooling nobody, and making meanings up for a name doesn't make it so.
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Taryn could be a variant of Tara, mixed with names like Caryn or Erin. It's definitely not Scandinavian for "little princess". Little princess is "liten prinsessa" in Swedish and "lille prinsesse" in Danish and Norwegian.
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There are two primary sources for the name Taryn, and neither of them are remotely related to the etymology given here, which the real etymologies predate by some 2300 years.
As a female name Taryn derives from the Irish name Tara, via a curious amalgamation of ideas. Tara was the geographical name of the mythological seat of the ancient Irish kings, from the Gaelic 'tor' (as in 'Glastonbury Tor', "hill, mound"; this also gave us the word 'tower') and the Old English 'torr' ("rocky hill"); via the Welsh 'twrr' ("pile") and probably the Ancient Greek 'týrris' ("tower"). When the Celts were introduced to Greco-Roman mythology they assimilated Diana, the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt, and relocated her to Tara where her name evolved from Diana to Dana, Tana, and eventually Tara... the mythic power of the place combined with the mythic power of the foreign goddess to create a new Celtic deity - the druidic goddess Tara - and the Celts had a new and auspicious name for their daughters.
Interestingly the feminine name Tara didn't evolve into Taryn until after the appearance of Taryn as a masculine name. Also interestingly that name too has Welsh origins.
As a male name Taryn derives from the Welsh name Tarrant, via Old Welsh 'taranau' ("to thunder") and 'taran' ("thunder"). This may have also given us the English name Trent via Celtic 'tarrent' ("trespasser"), their name for what eventually became known as the River Trent in NW England, which overflowed when there were big storms - hence the 'thunder' association. The Celts adopted the Welsh name for their god of thunder 'Taranis' ("thunder"), via the proto-Celt 'toranos' (still "thunder") which also influenced the name of the Norse thunder god, Thor. Over time this evolved from Taranis to the Gaelic 'Taran' and eventually to the Irish 'Tuireann' and the Anglo/English 'Taryn'.
From there the name split along two divergent paths. Before returning to Welsh as 'Taryn' (still "thunder"), which became a moderately popular masculine name within Wales but was rarely used for males elsewhere, it recombined with the Irish name (and concept) 'Tara', changing it too to 'Taryn', a much more popular feminine name that is used throughout the English-speaking world but is most prevalent in the Commonwealth.
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As a female name Taryn derives from the Irish name Tara, via a curious amalgamation of ideas. Tara was the geographical name of the mythological seat of the ancient Irish kings, from the Gaelic 'tor' (as in 'Glastonbury Tor', "hill, mound"; this also gave us the word 'tower') and the Old English 'torr' ("rocky hill"); via the Welsh 'twrr' ("pile") and probably the Ancient Greek 'týrris' ("tower"). When the Celts were introduced to Greco-Roman mythology they assimilated Diana, the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt, and relocated her to Tara where her name evolved from Diana to Dana, Tana, and eventually Tara... the mythic power of the place combined with the mythic power of the foreign goddess to create a new Celtic deity - the druidic goddess Tara - and the Celts had a new and auspicious name for their daughters.
Interestingly the feminine name Tara didn't evolve into Taryn until after the appearance of Taryn as a masculine name. Also interestingly that name too has Welsh origins.
As a male name Taryn derives from the Welsh name Tarrant, via Old Welsh 'taranau' ("to thunder") and 'taran' ("thunder"). This may have also given us the English name Trent via Celtic 'tarrent' ("trespasser"), their name for what eventually became known as the River Trent in NW England, which overflowed when there were big storms - hence the 'thunder' association. The Celts adopted the Welsh name for their god of thunder 'Taranis' ("thunder"), via the proto-Celt 'toranos' (still "thunder") which also influenced the name of the Norse thunder god, Thor. Over time this evolved from Taranis to the Gaelic 'Taran' and eventually to the Irish 'Tuireann' and the Anglo/English 'Taryn'.
From there the name split along two divergent paths. Before returning to Welsh as 'Taryn' (still "thunder"), which became a moderately popular masculine name within Wales but was rarely used for males elsewhere, it recombined with the Irish name (and concept) 'Tara', changing it too to 'Taryn', a much more popular feminine name that is used throughout the English-speaking world but is most prevalent in the Commonwealth.
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My name is Taryn and it is a very old name. Is Irish/Gaelic meaning "Beautiful Hillside".
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According to wiki:
"'Taryn' is a unisex name of various meanings and origins. It is found in a variety of cultures and ethnicities, its meaning is dependent on culture:
* Scots-Gaelic: Tender/Innocent
* Irish-Gaelic: Rocky Hill
* Norse-Celtic: Thunder
* Latin: Of the Earth
* English: Rock
* Greek: The Reaper
* Hebrew: Wild Goat
* Arabic: To Carry
* Sanskrit: Young
* Greco-Roman: Queen
* Scandinavian: Little Princess"
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"'Taryn' is a unisex name of various meanings and origins. It is found in a variety of cultures and ethnicities, its meaning is dependent on culture:
* Scots-Gaelic: Tender/Innocent
* Irish-Gaelic: Rocky Hill
* Norse-Celtic: Thunder
* Latin: Of the Earth
* English: Rock
* Greek: The Reaper
* Hebrew: Wild Goat
* Arabic: To Carry
* Sanskrit: Young
* Greco-Roman: Queen
* Scandinavian: Little Princess"
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Taryn is a Celtic name, meaning Irish hillside.
It is also a Greek name, meaning innocent.
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It is also a Greek name, meaning innocent.
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I remember reading from different books and online sources that Taryn actually has several meanings - one, obviously, is from Tara, an Irish name. I also saw some Hindu and Arabic influences in the pronunciation of "Taryn", but ultimately I think it is given as a name in the West due to the Irish name popularity. It's my name, and although I have to spell it for people often, I love it, and I love the uniqueness it gives me on a name badge in the workplace.
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Taryn in Hebrew means - she will sing, or she'll be full with happiness.
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