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Talitha

#3,637 in 2025Girls' name

Female child, girl, maiden

Talitha has been given to 3,521 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #3,637 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Talitha, 2025

1 in 78,900

Talitha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talitha: meaning, origin, and history

Female child, girl, maiden

Aramaic

What Talitha means

Talitha means “female child, girl, maiden”, associated with ṭalyəṯāʾ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Aramaic טליתא (ṭalyəṯāʾ, “female child, girl, maiden”). From a passage in the New Testament (Gospel of Mark) in which Jesus restores to life a little girl.

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Origin, language, and formation

Talitha is used in English. Its origins include Aramaic.

Talitha comes through Aramaic טליתא.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Talitha is pronounced /ˈtælɪθə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,521 girls were recorded with the name Talitha between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,069 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,497 in 2020 to #3,637 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,087 in 2015 to #3,637 in 2025.

How common is Talitha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,637
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talitha 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talitha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talithas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talitha was born before 1987 — so the typical Talitha is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (659).

Is Talitha 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
−364
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,140
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−550
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 1982 (90)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,069
1902

Spellings of Talitha

Talitha is not the most common spelling — Tabitha is, with 24.6% against Talitha's 1.5%.

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 Talitha is used

Across 2016–2025, Talitha was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 64,245 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Talitha around the world

Where Talitha 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
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2000–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • France
    1990–2025
    #4,220
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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 Talitha

People whose public names include Talitha, 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.

Talitha in other languages

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

Talita

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

Talitha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,637
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,140
Best rank ever
#1,069
1902
Peak year
1982
90 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,521
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Talitha

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

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Names with a curve like Talitha

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

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Sibling names for Talitha

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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