Girls' name · since 2017
Talilah
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 30 babies named Talilah, peaking in 2021. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #41,103 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,570 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Talilah is the #14570 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 30 recorded since 2017.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Talilah has been recorded 30 times among girls since 2017, currently ranked #14570 nationally and more common than 16% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #41,103 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,570 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 30 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Talilah ranks #41,103 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,570 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 30 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #41,103 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,570 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Talilah's 30 recorded births place it above 43.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Talilah compares
30 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Talilah's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Talilah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 30 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Talilah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Talilah's full recorded timeline at 2022, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Talilah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Talilah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 83% of the file).
2020s was Talilah's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Talilah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (83% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Talilah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2021)
Similar record span (~8 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Talilah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.