Talya
Talya was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,604 among girls’ names; 3,001 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,950 Americans named Talya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Talya mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Talya is “a diminutive of the female given name Natalia”
Clipping of Natalia. Compare Naty.
/ˈtalja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Talya?
#2,604 among girls’ names, 2025
Talya fell from #1,962 in 2015 to #2,604 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 57.7 to 41.7 per million.
104 babies in 2014, the peak
Talya peaked in 2014, when 104 girls were given it, #1,939 among girls’ names. The 67 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,604 | 41.7 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,817 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,847 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,160 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,334 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,542 | 26.6 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,994 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,643 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,317 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,147 | 51.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,962 | 57.7 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,939 | 58.2 |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,186 | 49.0 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,335 | 46.0 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,189 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,312 | 46.7 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,420 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,103 | 51.3 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,679 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,225 | 45.8 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,354 | 41.1 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,583 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,876 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,304 | 39.5 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,252 | 40.0 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,978 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,992 | 44.5 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,364 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,418 | 31.6 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,305 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,835 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,597 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,034 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,819 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,646 | 24.5 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,686 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,241 | 29.3 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,631 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,409 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,897 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,502 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,512 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,421 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,893 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,977 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,744 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,921 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,932 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,163 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,273 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,622 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,675 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,119 | 26.1 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,699 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,283 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,732 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,940 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,295 | 10.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,686 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,415 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talya, and how old are they?
2,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,001 Americans ever recorded as Talya. The median Talya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,394 people named Talya (2,386 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,643 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 264 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 578 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 909 |
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 Talya born?
The states with the most babies named Talya are Florida, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,317 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,516 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,374 | 0.3× |
Where Talya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Talya is most over-represented in New York: since 1961 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Talya 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 64,717 babies since 1880, Talya is the seventh most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 1,927 babies (3.5%), 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 Talya
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 Talya and names like it
- Compare Talya and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTalya peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talya since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Talya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.