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Taliyah vs Talulah

American parents have registered 8,900 Taliyahs since 1880, against 566 Talulahs. Taliyah is still ahead, with 203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taliyah Talulah

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

Taliyah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Taliyah had 216 and Talulah had 58.

Side by side

  Taliyah Talulah
Total US births 8,900566
Most in one year 45858
Babies in 2025 20338
Estimated living today 8,800560
Median age today 156
Peak year 20082024
Best rank 670th girls2,857th girls
Rank in 2025 1,139th3,832nd
First recorded 19942000
Girls / boys 8,900 / 0566 / 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 Taliyahs alive today are over 15; half the Talulahs are over 6. That is 9 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 Taliyah Talulah
England and Wales 612291

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: Taliyah and Talulah.