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Talmadge vs Talor

American parents have registered 5,671 Talmadges since 1880, against 748 Talors. Talmadge is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Talmadge Talor

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 115 years and Talor for 18 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Talmadge Talor
Total US births 5,671748
Most in one year 17355
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 2,100730
Median age today 5929
Peak year 19331993
Best rank 411th boys2,676th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 18861984
Girls / boys 36 / 5,635552 / 196

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 Talors are over 29. That is 30 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.

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