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Tallen vs Talmadge

American parents have registered 5,671 Talmadges since 1880, against 583 Tallens. But in 2025 it was Tallen that was commoner, 8 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tallen 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 113 years and Tallen for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tallen Talmadge
Total US births 5835,671
Most in one year 47173
Babies in 2025 88
Estimated living today 5802,100
Median age today 1559
Peak year 20061933
Best rank 2,542nd boys411th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th8,910th
First recorded 19871886
Girls / boys 0 / 58336 / 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 Tallens are over 15. That is 44 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: Tallen and Talmadge.