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Taliesin

#7,620 in 2025Boys' name

Shining brow

Taliesin has been given to 253 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #7,620 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Taliesin, 2025

1 in 301,000

Taliesin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taliesin: meaning, origin, and history

Shining brow

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taliesin means

Taliesin means “shining brow”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 253 boys were recorded with the name Taliesin between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,476 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,664 in 2020 to #7,620 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,804 in 2015 to #7,620 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 Taliesin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,620
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taliesin 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taliesin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taliesins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taliesin was born before 2016 — so the typical Taliesin is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
253
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Taliesin 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
+3,174
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,956
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,184
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.8%
Peak was 2021 (23)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,476
2021

Taliesin around the world

Where Taliesin 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
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #614
    in 2023
  • France
    2004–2005
    #3,229
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Taliesin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,620
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,956
Best rank ever
#4,476
2021
Peak year
2021
23 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
253
Count in 2025
11

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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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