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Talan vs Talia

American parents have registered 34,159 Talias since 1880, against 4,033 Talans. Talia is still ahead, with 1,180 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Talan against Talia, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Talan Talia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Talia for 60 years and Talan for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Talan Talia
Total US births 4,03334,159
Most in one year 1,0811,183
Babies in 2025 341,180
Estimated living today 4,00034,000
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20062023
Best rank 309th boys264th girls
Rank in 2025 3,379th265th
First recorded 19851960
Girls / boys 51 / 3,98234,154 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Talan Talia
England and Wales 925,458
France 204,875

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Talan and Talia.