Talon
Talon was given to 175 boys in 2025, #1,181 among boys’ names; 13,039 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,800 Americans named Talon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Talon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Talon is “a male given name from English of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “heel” (talon).
The surname derives from Old French talon (“heel”) as a nickname for a deformity, or for a swift runner; also diminutive of Talbot and Talleyrand. The modern given name is associated with English talon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Talon?
#1,181 among boys’ names, 2025
Talon fell from #614 in 2015 to #1,181 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.23 to 0.10 per 1,000.
679 babies in 2006, the peak
Talon peaked in 2006, when 679 babies were given it (661 boys, #426 among boys’ names). The 182 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,181 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,046 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 236 | #958 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 247 | #933 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 308 | #797 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 295 | #789 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 356 | #703 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 314 | #756 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 312 | #756 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 408 | #649 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 438 | #614 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 495 | #558 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 552 | #496 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 513 | #514 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 500 | #516 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 569 | #463 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 638 | #440 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 593 | #466 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 640 | #436 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 661 | #426 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 356 | #623 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 239 | #763 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 244 | #739 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 296 | #648 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 292 | #641 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 252 | #699 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 250 | #675 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 237 | #705 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 229 | #697 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 219 | #719 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 171 | #819 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 152 | #877 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 150 | #868 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 157 | #840 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 124 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 124 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,287 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 55 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,248 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,362 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,381 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Talon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,039 Americans recorded as Talon, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 175 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Talon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talon, and how old are they?
12,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,039 Americans ever recorded as Talon. The median Talon alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 10,246 people named Talon (436 women and girls, 9,810 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,426 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,470 |
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 Talon born?
The states with the most babies named Talon are Texas, Pennsylvania and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,165 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #785 | 0.8× |
| California | 9 | #1,814 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 9 | #713 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 8 | #796 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,003 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #830 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #798 | 2.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,456 | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #2,012 | 0.3× |
Where Talon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Talon is most over-represented in Utah: since 1975 it was given 3.8 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 boys’ 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 Talon 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 27,304 babies since 1880, Talon is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 182 of their 494 babies (37%), again the 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 Talon
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 Talon and names like it
- Compare Talon and TalanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTalon peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talon since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Talon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Talon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.