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Talicia vs Talmadge

American parents have registered 5,671 Talmadges since 1880, against 542 Talicias. Talmadge is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Talicia against Talmadge, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Talicia Talmadge

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 133 years in which either name was published, Talmadge for 125 years and Talicia for 8 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Talicia Talmadge
Total US births 5425,671
Most in one year 25173
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 5302,100
Median age today 3459
Peak year 19911933
Best rank 4,059th girls411th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,910th
First recorded 19651886
Girls / boys 542 / 036 / 5,635

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 Talmadges alive today are over 59; half the Talicias are over 34. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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