Talaya
Talaya was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,221 among girls’ names; 1,527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Talaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talaya?
#5,221 among girls’ names, 2025
Talaya fell from #4,708 in 2015 to #5,221 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 15.6 per million.
55 babies in 2005, the peak
Talaya peaked in 2005, when 55 girls were given it, #2,960 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,221 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,424 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,443 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,364 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,379 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,247 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,910 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,665 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,793 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,832 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,708 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,170 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,771 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,097 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,456 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,951 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,354 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,536 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,777 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,499 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,960 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,958 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,077 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,452 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,092 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,648 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,141 | 23.7 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,933 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,493 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,036 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,864 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,669 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,221 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,565 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,799 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,889 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,823 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,289 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,966 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,165 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,617 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,502 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,457 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,700 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,857 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,510 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,642 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,494 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,497 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,132 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,332 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,687 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,009 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,478 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,207 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,982 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,403 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,585 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,974 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talaya, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,527 Americans ever recorded as Talaya. The median Talaya alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,088 people named Talaya (1,088 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,344 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 145 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 321 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 619 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 413 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,114 babies since 1880, Talaya is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 1,755 babies (1.4%), the seventh 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 Talaya
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 Talaya and names like it
- Compare Talaya and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Talaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.