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Talon vs Talynn

American parents have registered 13,039 Talons since 1880, against 727 Talynns. Talon is still ahead, with 182 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Talon against Talynn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Talon Talynn

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

Talon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Talon had 274 and Talynn had 31.

Side by side

  Talon Talynn
Total US births 13,039727
Most in one year 67942
Babies in 2025 18210
Estimated living today 13,000720
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20062011
Best rank 426th boys3,659th girls
Rank in 2025 1,176th9,457th
First recorded 19751993
Girls / boys 542 / 12,497717 / 10

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 Talons alive today are over 16; half the Talynns are over 14. That is 2 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: Talon and Talynn.