Talan
Talan was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,438 among boys’ names; 4,033 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,990 Americans named Talan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talan?
#3,438 among boys’ names, 2025
Talan fell from #1,907 in 2015 to #3,438 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.2 to 19.9 per million.
1,081 babies in 2006, the peak
Talan peaked in 2006, when 1,081 babies were given it (1,060 boys, #309 among boys’ names). The 34 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,438 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,152 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,328 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,068 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,723 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,618 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,543 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,107 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 90 | #1,736 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #1,907 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,532 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,284 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,210 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 139 | #1,248 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 202 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 266 | #826 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 319 | #726 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 455 | #567 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 1,060 | #309 | 0.52 |
| 2005 | 446 | #542 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,391 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,174 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,976 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,961 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,835 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,139 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,695 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Talan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,033 Americans recorded as Talan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 34 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Talan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talan, and how old are they?
3,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,033 Americans ever recorded as Talan. The median Talan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,530 people named Talan (99 women and girls, 3,431 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,772 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 811 |
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 Talan born?
The states with the most babies named Talan are California, Texas and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 298 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 226 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 175 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 146 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 124 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 118 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 115 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 98 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 97 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 95 | not ranked | 0.9× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Talan 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 27,304 babies since 1880, Talan is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 494 babies (6.9%), the third 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 Talan
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 Talan and names like it
- Compare Talan and TalonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTalan peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talan since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Talan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.