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Talha vs Taliyah

American parents have registered 8,900 Taliyahs since 1880, against 1,033 Talhas. Taliyah is still ahead, with 203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Talha against Taliyah, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Talha Taliyah

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 39 years in which either name was published, Taliyah for 32 years and Talha for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Talha Taliyah
Total US births 1,0338,900
Most in one year 50458
Babies in 2025 45203
Estimated living today 1,0008,800
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20222008
Best rank 2,648th boys670th girls
Rank in 2025 2,798th1,139th
First recorded 19861994
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0338,900 / 0

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 Talha Taliyah
England and Wales 1,436612
France 615110
Switzerland 9311
Ireland 223

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: Talha and Taliyah.