The Tarin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,524 people carried this name — #7,363 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 65,400 people counted. That is up 44% from 3,138 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 442 people named Tarin.
50 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 47 départements, most often Charente-Maritime.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 65 people named Tarin live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
29 people named Tarin live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
21 people named Tarin is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Tarin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre-Paul Tarin de Cussy 1650–1691 · colonial administrator
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Vincent Tarin 1701–1850
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Pierre Tarin 1725–1761 · physician
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Pierre Tarin 1735–1761 · physician
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Francisco de Paula Tarín 1847–1910 · Catholic priest
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Bernat Tarín i Juaneda 1857–1925 · monk
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tarin.
- Tarby 310 · U.S. census
- Tard 131 · U.S. census
- Tardi 197 · U.S. census
- Tardif 1,923 · U.S. census
- Tardy 1,823 · U.S. census
- Tari 223 · U.S. census
- Taris 115 · U.S. census
- Tarnowski 1,625 · U.S. census
- Taro 180 · U.S. census
- Taron 163 · U.S. census
- Tarpinian 310 · U.S. census
- Tarquini 173 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Tarin is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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