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Tala

#1,217 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tala has been given to 3,497 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #1,217 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 187 recorded.

Babies named Tala, 2025

1 in 17,700

Tala over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tala: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tala means

Tala is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tala is used in Icelandic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Tala is pronounced [ˈtʰaːla].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,497 girls were recorded with the name Tala between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 187 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,217 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,543 in 2020 to #1,217 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,792 in 2015 to #1,217 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tala?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,700
187 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,590
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,217
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,289 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tala sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,289 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tala was born before 2014 — so the typical Tala is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,497
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (1,259).

Is Tala rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+113
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+326
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+575
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (187)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,217
2025

Spellings of Tala

Tala is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 7.3% against Tala's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tala is used

Across 2016–2025, Tala was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 9,494 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 4,167
  2. 2Illinois1 in 5,882
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 6,667
  4. 4California1 in 7,692
  5. 5Ohio1 in 7,692
  6. 6New York1 in 8,333
  7. 7Virginia1 in 9,091
  8. 8Washington1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Tala around the world

Where Tala ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #834
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #1,537
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #708
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tala

People whose public names include Tala, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tala in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tala. Linked forms have their own page here.

Talia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tala by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,217
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 326
Best rank ever
#1,217
2025
Peak year
2025
187 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,497
Count in 2025
187

Names similar to Tala

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tala

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tala, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tala

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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