Talana
Talana was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 369 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,222, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1977, the peak
Talana peaked in 1977, when 21 girls were given it, #3,594 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #16,222 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,027 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,927 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,320 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,235 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,613 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,636 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,151 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,089 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,703 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #9,145 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,287 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,610 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,906 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,042 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,788 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,323 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,936 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,297 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,241 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,915 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,594 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,576 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,464 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,308 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,138 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,189 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,451 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,363 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,915 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,914 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,719 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,736 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,239 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,453 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,774 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,633 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,922 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,666 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,786 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,754 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talana, and how old are they?
An estimated 345 Americans named Talana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 40 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 382 people named Talana (378 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,509 babies since 1880, Talana is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 108 babies recorded by SSA was a Talana (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Talana
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 Talana and names like it
- Compare Talana and TalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTalana peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Talana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Talana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.