Tala
Tala was given to 187 girls in 2025, #1,217 among girls’ names; 3,497 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,460 Americans named Tala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tala?
#1,217 among girls’ names, 2025
Tala rose from #1,792 in 2015 to #1,217 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.12 per 1,000.
187 babies in 2025, the peak
Tala peaked in 2025, when 187 girls were given it, #1,217 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 173 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,217 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 173 | #1,330 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 152 | #1,461 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,554 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,543 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,404 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,631 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,399 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 132 | #1,648 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,792 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,588 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,586 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 107 | #1,882 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,041 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,425 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,267 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,771 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,925 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,418 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,498 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,994 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,571 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,322 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,917 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,010 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,334 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,216 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,503 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,888 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,834 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,980 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,509 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,368 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,826 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,394 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,619 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,739 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,685 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,944 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,649 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,398 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,274 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,560 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,419 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tala, and how old are they?
3,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,497 Americans ever recorded as Tala. The median Tala alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,821 people named Tala (2,710 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,571 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,900 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tala born?
The states with the most babies named Tala are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 43 | #729 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 15 | #663 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 13 | #636 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,189 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 8 | #645 | 0.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,812 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,425 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,154 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 6 | #1,031 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,450 | 0.8× |
Where Tala is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tala is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1953 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tala with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,352 babies since 1880, Tala is the fourth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 187 of their 1,781 babies (10%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tala
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tala and names like it
- Compare Tala and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTala peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tala since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Tala.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tala alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.