Taria
Mace: The Dark Age is a 1997 fighting video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades, with a port for the Nintendo 64 later released by Midway. Like many fighting games of the time, its style is marked by extreme violence, with characters graphically slaying defeated opponents.
Meaning & Origin of Taria
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mace: The Dark Age is a 1997 fighting video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades, with a port for the Nintendo 64 later released by Midway. Like many fighting games of the time, its style is marked by extreme violence, with characters graphically slaying defeated opponents.
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The Story of Taria
The earliest SSA record of Taria as a baby girl name dates back to 1959, when 6 babies received it. 1981 was its biggest year on record, with 28 newborns named Taria — #3,066 in the national rankings. About 30% of every Taria on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Taria last appeared in the published SSA data in 2013, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 679 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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About the name Taria
Taria is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1959 and has accumulated 679 births in the dataset. Taria's peak popularity came in 1981 when it ranked #3,066. Use the chart and map above to compare Taria'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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