Talyn
Talyn is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,298 among girls’ names and #8,830 among boys’, #8,427 among all names counting both); 1,833 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Talyn every year since 2008.
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Talyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Talyn?
#6,298 among girls’ names, 2025
Talyn fell from #4,841 in 2015 to #6,298 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 11.8 per million.
156 babies in 2006, the peak
Talyn peaked in 2006, when 156 babies were given it (70 girls, #2,601 among girls’ names). The 28 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,298 | 9 | #8,830 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,043 | 9 | #8,902 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,234 | 9 | #8,832 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,437 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,220 | 9 | #8,746 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,646 | 20 | #4,833 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,592 | 23 | #4,461 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,989 | 13 | #6,652 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,016 | 25 | #4,212 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,515 | 27 | #3,972 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,841 | 38 | #3,077 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,255 | 28 | #3,766 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,412 | 46 | #2,617 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,235 | 40 | #2,945 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,716 | 41 | #2,895 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,484 | 50 | #2,506 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,938 | 52 | #2,478 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,116 | 50 | #2,537 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,594 | 80 | #1,827 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,601 | 86 | #1,665 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,574 | 48 | #2,423 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,183 | 8 | #8,817 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,074 | 13 | #5,836 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,265 | 23 | #3,770 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,431 | 17 | #4,647 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,208 | 15 | #5,004 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,555 | 10 | #6,455 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,934 | 11 | #5,789 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,984 | 5 | #10,624 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,353 | 7 | #7,870 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,596 | 20 | #3,409 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,720 | 9 | #6,296 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,643 | 8 | #6,743 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,613 | 7 | #7,301 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,958 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,094 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,265 | 5 | #8,358 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,042 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,617 | under 5 |
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 Talyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,833 Americans recorded as Talyn, 53% are girls and 47% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Talyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talyn, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,833 Americans ever recorded as Talyn. The median Talyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,505 people named Talyn (783 women and girls, 722 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,663 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 561 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,341 babies since 1880, Talyn is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 542 babies (5.2%), the eighth 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 Talyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Rilee | 3,742 |
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 Talyn and names like it
- Compare Talyn and TaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTalyn peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Talyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Talyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.