Talea
Talea was last recorded in 2024, when 12 babies were given it; 868 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,888, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 2004, the peak
Talea peaked in 2004, when 40 girls were given it, #3,682 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 | #8,888 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,237 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,610 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,221 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,470 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,659 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,069 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,865 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,875 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,232 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,271 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,986 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,056 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,311 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,229 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,794 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,994 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,212 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,252 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,565 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,682 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,265 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,485 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,135 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,510 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,190 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,722 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,134 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,031 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,825 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,680 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,439 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,242 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,980 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,097 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,031 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,620 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,671 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,067 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,830 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,503 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,458 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,868 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,858 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,951 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,906 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,898 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,333 | 4.6 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,466 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,280 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,879 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talea, and how old are they?
An estimated 853 Americans named Talea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 747 people named Talea (737 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 805 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below 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 56,685 babies since 1880, Talea is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,724 babies recorded by SSA was a Talea (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 Talea
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 Talea and names like it
- Compare Talea and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTalea peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talea since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Talea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.