Talen
Talen was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,685 among boys’ names; 2,026 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Talen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talen?
#4,685 among boys’ names, 2025
Talen fell from #2,294 in 2015 to #4,685 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 12.9 per million.
223 babies in 2006, the peak
Talen peaked in 2006, when 223 babies were given it (216 boys, #904 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,685 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,511 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,619 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,602 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,169 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,258 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,520 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,883 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,753 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,926 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,294 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,039 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 80 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,653 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 93 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 119 | #1,407 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,442 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 136 | #1,283 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 197 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 216 | #904 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,705 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,872 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,102 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,376 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,209 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,988 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,329 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,577 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,019 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,414 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,945 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,204 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,249 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Talen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,026 Americans recorded as Talen, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Talen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talen, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,026 Americans ever recorded as Talen. The median Talen alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,787 people named Talen (103 women and girls, 1,684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 127 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 568 |
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 27,304 babies since 1880, Talen is the fourth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 494 babies (4.5%), the sixth 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 Talen
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 Talen and names like it
- Compare Talen and TalonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTalen peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talen since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Talen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.