Tal
Tal is a boy's name that peaked in 1963, when it was the 813th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 1,700 Tals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tal boys named Tal
Girls and boys called Tal
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 548 girls and 1,265 boys in all, and in 2008 the split was 12 to 19.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 28 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,813
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1963
- Best rank
- 813th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1937
- Girls / boys
- 548 / 1,265
How old the living Tals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,813 babies given the name since 1937, about 1,700 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tals
- Tal Ben Haim (born 1982)Israeli association football player
- Tal (born 1989)French singer and songwriter
- Tal Wilkenfeld (born 1986)Australian musician
- Tal Farlow (1921–1998)American jazz guitarist
- Tal Banin (born 1971)Israeli footballer
- Tal Bachman (born 1968)Canadian singer-songwriter
- Tal Brody (born 1943)American-Israeli basketball player
- Tal Ben Haim (born 1989)Israeli association football player
People named Tal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tal is most concentrated in New York (6.8×), California (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1963
The most popular boys’ names the year Tal peaked:
Tal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Tal | 330 | 1,495th |
| France boys | Tal | 65 | 6,723rd |
| England and Wales boys | Tal | 64 | 2,629th |
| Poland boys | Tal | 12 birth registrations | 288th |
| England and Wales girls | Tal | 10 | 4,736th |
| Poland girls | Tal | 10 birth registrations | 363rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Tal | — | 7 |
| Finland boys | Tal | 7 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Tal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.