Talley
Talley was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,818 among girls’ names; 441 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talley?
#11,818 among girls’ names, 2025
Talley rose from #12,892 in 2015 to #11,818 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
17 babies in 2000, the peak
Talley peaked in 2000, when 17 girls were given it, #6,446 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,818 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,018 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,120 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,993 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,553 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,868 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,731 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,768 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,892 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,306 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,991 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,815 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,686 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,335 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,335 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,917 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,069 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,539 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,824 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,596 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,225 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,152 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,930 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,446 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,732 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,018 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,231 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,446 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,462 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,509 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,529 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,334 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,171 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,625 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,139 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,281 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,074 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,643 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,026 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,380 | |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,722 | 6 | #5,161 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,530 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,190 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,534 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,544 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,560 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,893 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,402 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,226 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,761 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,880 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 9 | #3,092 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,339 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,509 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,784 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,703 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Talley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 441 Americans recorded as Talley, 82% are girls and 18% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Talley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talley, and how old are they?
An estimated 380 Americans named Talley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 556 people named Talley (395 women and girls, 161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5,413 babies since 1880, Talley is the fifth most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 62 babies (13%), the fourth 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.
More about Talley and names like it
- Compare Talley and TayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTalley peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Talley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.