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Talia vs Talon

American parents have registered 34,159 Talias since 1880, against 13,039 Talons. Talia is still ahead, with 1,180 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Talia 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

Talia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Talia had 839 and Talon had 649.

Side by side

  Talia Talon
Total US births 34,15913,039
Most in one year 1,183679
Babies in 2025 1,180182
Estimated living today 34,00013,000
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20232006
Best rank 264th girls426th boys
Rank in 2025 265th1,176th
First recorded 19601975
Girls / boys 34,154 / 5542 / 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.

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 Talia Talon
England and Wales 5,458102

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: Talia and Talon.