Taleah
Taleah was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,447 among girls’ names; 2,727 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Taleah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taleah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taleah?
#3,447 among girls’ names, 2025
Taleah fell from #2,234 in 2015 to #3,447 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 28.0 per million.
130 babies in 2010, the peak
Taleah peaked in 2010, when 130 girls were given it, #1,647 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,447 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,330 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,933 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,854 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,430 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,848 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,590 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,555 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,142 | 52.1 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,840 | 63.8 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,234 | 47.6 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,024 | 54.9 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,711 | 69.5 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,704 | 69.8 |
| 2011 | 129 | #1,659 | 73.3 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,647 | 73.1 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,718 | 70.2 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,947 | 57.6 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,970 | 54.6 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,805 | 60.5 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,981 | 52.5 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,793 | 58.3 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,458 | 36.7 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,323 | 39.0 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,534 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,894 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,982 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,965 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,094 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,418 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,347 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,501 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,801 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,971 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,914 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,362 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,120 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,465 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,642 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,068 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,633 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,071 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,664 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,869 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,715 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,079 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,242 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,560 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,818 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,116 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,467 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taleah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taleah 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 Taleah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taleah, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,727 Americans ever recorded as Taleah. The median Taleah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,854 people named Taleah (1,850 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,404 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 294 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 954 |
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 Taleah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,129 | 1.3× |
Where Taleah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taleah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1972 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Taleah 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 57,664 babies since 1880, Taleah is the sixth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 1,833 babies (2.5%), 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 Taleah
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 Taleah and names like it
- Compare Taleah and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaleah peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taleah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Taleah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taleah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.