Talayah
Talayah was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,814 among girls’ names; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Talayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talayah?
#2,814 among girls’ names, 2025
Talayah rose from #3,384 in 2015 to #2,814 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.9 to 38.0 per million.
61 babies in 2025, the peak
Talayah peaked in 2025, when 61 girls were given it, #2,814 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 52 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,814 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,115 | 32.1 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,844 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,310 | 29.9 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,925 | 35.3 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,995 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,165 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,346 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,687 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,579 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,384 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,577 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,908 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,641 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,713 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,957 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,863 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,350 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,930 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,214 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,767 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,168 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,023 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,659 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,021 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,984 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,237 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,189 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,710 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,614 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,497 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,250 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,278 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talayah, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,050 Americans ever recorded as Talayah. The median Talayah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 562 people named Talayah (562 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 408 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 613 |
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 22,345 babies since 1880, Talayah is the seventh most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 561 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Talayah
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 Talayah and names like it
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