Talitha
Talitha reached its high-water mark in 1982 at number 1,363, and has been recorded 3,521 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,577th. About 3,100 Talithas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Talitha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,521
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 1,363rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,577th
- First recorded
- 1892
How old the living Talithas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,521 babies given the name since 1892, about 3,100 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 880 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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 Aramaic
From Aramaic טליתא (“female child, girl, maiden”). From a passage in the New Testament (Gospel of Mark) in which Jesus restores to life a little girl.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Talithas
- Talitha Bateman (born 2001)American actress
- Talitha Diggs (born 2002)American athlete
People named Talitha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Talitha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Talitha is most concentrated in Texas (3.9×), California (3.3×), Florida (2.3×), Illinois (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular girls’ names the year Talitha peaked:
Talitha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Talitha | 627 | 878th |
| France girls | Talitha | 100 | 4,220th |
| Belgium girls | Talitha | 78 | 475th |
| Switzerland girls | Talitha | 44 | 839th |
| Ireland girls | Talitha | 6 | 536th |
| Scotland girls | Talitha | 6 | 687th |
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.
Talitha: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Talitha | 33 | 0.003% | 696th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Talitha | 8 | 0.002% | 509th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Talitha | 3 | 0.005% | 175th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Talitha: rank by region
In 2005, Talitha was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Talitha | 778 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Talitha 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.