Taliah
Taliah was given to 90 girls in 2025, #2,097 among girls’ names; 3,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,420 Americans named Taliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taliah?
#2,097 among girls’ names, 2025
Taliah fell from #1,553 in 2015 to #2,097 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 79.5 to 56.0 per million.
148 babies in 2009, the peak
Taliah peaked in 2009, when 148 girls were given it, #1,536 among girls’ names. The 90 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,097 | 56.0 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,173 | 54.3 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,919 | 64.8 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,172 | 53.7 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,788 | 69.5 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,806 | 68.0 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,918 | 62.0 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,887 | 62.9 |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,750 | 70.1 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,773 | 66.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 142 | #1,553 | 79.5 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,651 | 72.8 |
| 2013 | 141 | #1,553 | 80.4 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,938 | 57.9 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,828 | 63.1 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,938 | 58.5 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,536 | 80.6 |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,888 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,827 | 60.9 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,987 | 53.1 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,788 | 59.5 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,149 | 45.7 |
| 2003 | 85 | #2,088 | 46.5 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,095 | 45.6 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,865 | 52.2 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,366 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,852 | 48.5 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,491 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,473 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,751 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,615 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,522 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,973 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,068 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,785 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,035 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,032 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,282 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,254 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,263 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,268 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,241 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,419 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,870 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,058 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,494 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,429 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,931 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,352 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,117 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taliah, and how old are they?
3,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,462 Americans ever recorded as Taliah. The median Taliah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,315 people named Taliah (2,315 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,867 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 378 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,450 |
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 Taliah born?
The states with the most babies named Taliah are Texas, New York and Maryland, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,608 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #2,048 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 6 | #832 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,451 | 1.5× |
| California | 5 | #3,483 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,761 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,617 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,676 | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,199 | 0.3× |
Where Taliah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taliah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1976 it was given 1.5 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 Taliah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Taliah?
Taliah is a less common spelling of Talia: SSA has recorded 3,462 Taliah and 34,159 Talia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,785 babies since 1880, Taliah is the fifth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 1,950 babies (4.6%), again the fifth most given.
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 Taliah
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 Taliah and names like it
- Compare Taliah and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaliah peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Taliah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taliah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.