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Talan vs Talynn

American parents have registered 4,033 Talans since 1880, against 727 Talynns. Talan is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Talan Talynn

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 37 years in which either name was published, Talan for 28 years and Talynn for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Talan Talynn
Total US births 4,033727
Most in one year 1,08142
Babies in 2025 3410
Estimated living today 4,000720
Median age today 1814
Peak year 20062011
Best rank 309th boys3,659th girls
Rank in 2025 3,379th9,457th
First recorded 19851993
Girls / boys 51 / 3,982717 / 10

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Talans alive today are over 18; half the Talynns are over 14. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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