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Taleen vs Talon

American parents have registered 13,039 Talons since 1880, against 1,130 Taleens. Talon is still ahead, with 182 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taleen against Talon, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taleen Talon

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 56 years in which either name was published, Talon for 50 years and Taleen for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taleen Talon
Total US births 1,13013,039
Most in one year 87679
Babies in 2025 70182
Estimated living today 1,10013,000
Median age today 916
Peak year 20242006
Best rank 2,178th girls426th boys
Rank in 2025 2,514th1,176th
First recorded 19651975
Girls / boys 1,130 / 0542 / 12,497

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 Talons alive today are over 16; half the Taleens are over 9. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Taleen Talon
England and Wales 176102

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: Taleen and Talon.