Taniel
Taniel is a 2018 arthouse short film co-written and directed Garo Berberian, telling the story of the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan until his murder during the Armenian genocide at the age of 31, the day of his son’s birth.
- Armenian
Meaning & Origin of Taniel
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Taniel is a 2018 arthouse short film co-written and directed Garo Berberian, telling the story of the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan until his murder during the Armenian genocide at the age of 31, the day of his son’s birth.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Armenian
The Story of Taniel
The earliest SSA record of Taniel as a baby girl name dates back to 1976, when 6 babies received it. 1980 was its biggest year on record, with 7 newborns named Taniel — #8,178 in the national rankings. About 67% of every Taniel on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Taniel last appeared in the published SSA data in 1986, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 18 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Taniel
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About the name Taniel
Taniel is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1976 and has accumulated 18 births in the dataset. Taniel's peak popularity came in 1980 when it ranked #8,178. Use the chart and map above to compare Taniel's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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