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Talan

#3,438 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Talan has been given to 4,033 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #3,438 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 1,060 recorded.

Babies named Talan, 2025

1 in 97,500

Talan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talan means

Talan is a given name.

The naming story behind Talan

Wikidata records Talan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q96653949, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,982 boys were recorded with the name Talan between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,060 in 2006; its best national rank was #309 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,723 in 2020 to #3,438 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,907 in 2015 to #3,438 in 2025.

In the United States, 51 girls were recorded with the name Talan between 2005 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,328 in 2006.

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.

How common is Talan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,438
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talan was born before 2007 — so the typical Talan is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
65.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,982
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 65.2% of all recorded uses (2,598).

Is Talan 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
−286
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−715
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,531
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.2%
Peak was 2006 (1,060)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#309
2006

Talan’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 2006, 1,060 boys were named Talan — about #309 that year — roughly 4.2× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Talan

Talan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 28.8% against Talan's 0.27%.

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 Talan is used

Across 2016–2025, Talan was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 53,976 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 25,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Talan around the world

Where Talan 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
    1997–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2002–2005
    #5,179
    in 2005
  • Canada
    2006–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #389
    in 2013

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

Talan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,438
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 715
Best rank ever
#309
2006
Peak year
2006
1,060 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,982
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,328
2006
Peak year
2006
21 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Talan

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

TalenTalonTylanTalhaArlanTallanTalibTalynDilanTalalTalinKelanTallonAslanKeelanElanJaylanDyllanIlanKylanMylanKalanAzlanDaylan

Names with a curve like Talan

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

YandelAadenDemarionBradynLandinDamarionJamarionJaydinAedanLandanJadynKadyn

Sibling names for Talan

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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