Tal — #11055 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tal

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,254 babies named Tal between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tal currently holds the #11055 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1963, when 87 babies received it in a single year. Tal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 543 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 257 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Tal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 166 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Tal in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,254 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.