Talula
Talula was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,297 among girls’ names; 417 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talula?
#6,297 among girls’ names, 2025
Talula rose from #8,391 in 2015 to #6,297 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 11.8 per million.
37 babies in 2024, the peak
Talula peaked in 2024, when 37 girls were given it, #4,029 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,297 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,029 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,527 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,593 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,385 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,294 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,677 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,070 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,406 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,775 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,391 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,014 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,991 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,061 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,390 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,170 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,521 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,118 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,213 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,194 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,826 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,512 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,693 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,154 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,670 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talula, and how old are they?
An estimated 414 Americans named Talula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 292 people named Talula (291 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Talula?
Talula is a less common spelling of Tallulah: SSA has recorded 417 Talula and 4,102 Tallulah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 53,282 babies since 1880, Talula is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 1,820 babies (1.0%), again the eighth 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 Talula
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 Talula and names like it
- Compare Talula and TallulahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTalula peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talula since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Talula.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Talula alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.