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Usages: Welsh Mythology, Welsh (Rare), English (British, Rare), Cornish (Rare), Literature, History, Pictish
Pronunciation: TA-ran(Welsh)
Meaning: Derived from Welsh and Cornish taran "thunder".Taran is mentioned in the Welsh Mabinogion, a fact that gave rise to the theory that both the figure and the name might be faint memories of the Celtic god Taranis.This thunder-god is also the source of the name of Taran mac Ainftech, a Pictish king from the 7th century. In the literary world, Taran is the central character in Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain (1964-1968).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_mac_Ainftech
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=taran&last=&search=Suche
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Killam
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taran
https://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/page-not-found?destination=cornish/tegen&locale=en#taran
(Information from name #14124 originally submitted by user Lucille)
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Pronunciation: TA-ran(Welsh)
Meaning: Derived from Welsh and Cornish taran "thunder".Taran is mentioned in the Welsh Mabinogion, a fact that gave rise to the theory that both the figure and the name might be faint memories of the Celtic god Taranis.This thunder-god is also the source of the name of Taran mac Ainftech, a Pictish king from the 7th century. In the literary world, Taran is the central character in Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain (1964-1968).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_mac_Ainftech
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=taran&last=&search=Suche
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Killam
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taran
https://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/page-not-found?destination=cornish/tegen&locale=en#taran
(Information from name #14124 originally submitted by user Lucille)