Talon
Talon is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 426th most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as English. In 2025 it ranked 1,176th. About 13,000 Talons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Talon boys named Talon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,039
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 426th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,176th
- First recorded
- 1975
- Girls / boys
- 542 / 12,497
How old the living Talons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,039 babies given the name since 1975, about 13,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 7,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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 English
The surname derives from Old French talon (“heel”) as a nickname for a deformity, or for a swift runner; also diminutive of Talbot and Talleyrand. The modern given name is associated with English talon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Talon is most common
Across the country Talon is recorded 3.11 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Talons are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Talon peaked:
Talon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Talon | 102 | 1,828th |
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.
Related names
Talon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.