Talulah
Talulah was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,895 among girls’ names; 566 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talulah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Talulah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Talulah is “Alternative form of Tallulah (“female given name”).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Talulah?
#3,895 among girls’ names, 2025
Talulah rose from #7,234 in 2015 to #3,895 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 23.6 per million.
58 babies in 2024, the peak
Talulah peaked in 2024, when 58 girls were given it, #2,887 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,895 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,887 | 35.8 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,263 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,273 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,206 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,533 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,294 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,296 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,907 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,167 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,234 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,780 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,694 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,421 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,535 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,955 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,420 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,377 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,070 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,220 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,827 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,513 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,120 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,330 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talulah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talulah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talulah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talulah, and how old are they?
An estimated 562 Americans named Talulah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 314 people named Talulah (310 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,949 babies since 1880, Talulah is the seventh most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 735 babies (5.2%), the sixth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Talulah
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 Talulah and names like it
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