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Talicia vs Taliyah

American parents have registered 8,900 Taliyahs since 1880, against 542 Talicias. Taliyah is still ahead, with 203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Talicia 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 55 years in which either name was published, Taliyah for 32 years and Talicia for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Talicia Taliyah
Total US births 5428,900
Most in one year 25458
Babies in 2025 under 5203
Estimated living today 5308,800
Median age today 3415
Peak year 19912008
Best rank 4,059th girls670th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,139th
First recorded 19651994
Girls / boys 542 / 08,900 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Talicias alive today are over 34; half the Taliyahs are over 15. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Talicia Taliyah
France 10110

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: Talicia and Taliyah.