Taraš
surname · Latin script
Taraš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Greek Tarasios ‘man from Tarentum’ (a town in southern Italy).
- HRCroatia1 in 20K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 24K
- FIFinland1 in 164K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,591 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Taras in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Tarasios ‘man from Tarentum’ (a town in southern Italy).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taraš counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,591 | 1 in 24K | 12K | — | — |
| US United States | 495 | 1 in 672K | 1.8K | Taras | 12 |
| HR Croatia | 207 | 1 in 20K | 207 | Taraš | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 182 | 1 in 1.2M | 182 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 58 | 1 in 862K | 815 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 34 | 1 in 164K | 288 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 32 | 1 in 171K | 672 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | — | 1 |
1,591 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 207 | #4,057 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 164 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Taraš mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Tarasios ‘man from Tarentum’ (a town in southern Italy). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Taraš have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Taraš, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Taraš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Taraš is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Taraš?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,591 people named Taraš in 2026, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tara%C5%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Taraš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.