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Talib

#13,663 in 2025Boys' name

Seeker of knowledge, student

Talib has been given to 907 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #13,663 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Talib, 2025

1 in 663,000

Talib over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talib: meaning, origin, and history

Seeker of knowledge, student

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talib means

Talib means “seeker of knowledge, student”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Talib is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtˤaː.lib/ for Talib.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 907 boys were recorded with the name Talib between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,194 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,519 in 2020 to #13,663 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,160 in 2015 to #13,663 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.

How common is Talib?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,663
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talib 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talib. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talibs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talib was born before 2003 — so the typical Talib is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
907
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (299).

Is Talib 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
−2,870
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−9,144
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,503
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.9%
Peak was 2002 (42)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,194
1978

Spellings of Talib

Talib is not the most common spelling — Caleb is, with 56.6% against Talib's 0.16%.

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 Talib is used

Across 1910–2025, Talib was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 679,632 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Talib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Talib around the world

Where Talib 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
    2002–2020
    #3,334
    in 2020
  • France
    1986–2025
    #6,490
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1999–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Talib by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,663
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 9,144
Best rank ever
#2,194
1978
Peak year
2002
42 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
907
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Talib

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

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Sibling names for Talib

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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