What does the name Taran mean?

Taran means "One who helps others cross, savior". It is a unisex name of Sikh origin.

Taran

Taran means One who helps others cross, savior.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sikh
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	T

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “One who helps others cross, savior”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Hartaran — God who helps cross, divine savior
Janardhan — Liberator of men, one who helps those in distress
Taranath — Lord who helps cross over, the savior Vishnu
Tarsem — One who is able to cross over, blessed rescuer
Patitapaban — Savior of the fallen, Lord Jagannath
Ramdevji — Folk saint, savior of the oppressed

More unisex names of Sikh origin

Gurpreet — Love of the Guru
Hardeep — Lamp of God, God's light
Harsimran — Remembering God, in meditation of the Lord
Harjot — God's light, divine flame
Gurmeet — Friend of the Guru, Guru's companion
Satnam — True name, name of the true Lord

Where this comes from

Taran has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.