Names

Derived from the Old English given name Tata.

From Old French tasse “purse, bag”, an occupational name for a maker or seller of purses.

From Middle English taske meaning “task, assignment”. A tasker was a person who had a fixed job to do, particularly a person who threshed grain with a flail.

From Middle English at asche meaning “at the ash tree”.

Variant of Tar.

Alternate transcription of Armenian Դարբինյան (see Darbinyan).

Created by author George R. R. Martin for his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). The Targaryens were the rulers of Westeros for almost 300 years until shortly before the beginning of the first novel. The name is presumably from the Valyrian language, though Martin provides no explanation of the meaning.

Locational name that originally designated a person who came from Taranto, a city in southeastern Italy, which was originally called Τάρας (Taras) by Greek colonists. A famous bearer of this name is the American director Quentin Tarantino (1963-).

Derived from Hungarian tar meaning “bald”.

Means “mud wall” in Spanish.