Tali
Tali was given to 57 girls in 2025, #2,953 among girls’ names; 1,535 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Tali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tali mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tali is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tali?
#2,953 among girls’ names, 2025
Tali rose from #3,979 in 2015 to #2,953 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.3 to 35.5 per million.
66 babies in 2023, the peak
Tali peaked in 2023, when 66 babies were given it (60 girls, #2,845 among girls’ names). The 57 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,953 | 35.5 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,506 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,845 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,272 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,291 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,885 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,328 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,286 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,367 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,151 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,979 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,772 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,149 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,477 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,141 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,847 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,689 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,261 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,286 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,215 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,218 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,480 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,292 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,660 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,430 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,967 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,952 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,224 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,202 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,037 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,411 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,280 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,644 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,973 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,474 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,804 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,807 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,242 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,673 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,746 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,835 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,319 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,859 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,496 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,716 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,081 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,387 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,899 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,905 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,194 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,334 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,616 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,153 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,497 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,453 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,983 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,532 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,050 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,711 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,535 Americans recorded as Tali, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 57 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Tali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tali, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,535 Americans ever recorded as Tali. The median Tali alive today is 18 years old; half are between 8 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,764 people named Tali (1,601 women and girls, 163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,201 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Tali rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 122 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 495 |
| 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).
Where are babies named Tali born?
The states with the most babies named Tali are California, New York and Illinois, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,468 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,813 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,616 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,605 | 0.1× |
Where Tali is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tali is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 1.7 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 Tali 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 55,737 babies since 1880, Tali is the seventh most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 1,768 babies (3.2%), 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 Tali
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 Tali and names like it
- Compare Tali and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTali peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tali since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Tali: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Tali.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tali alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.