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Tallulah

#940 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tallulah has been given to 4,102 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #940 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 345 recorded.

Babies named Tallulah, 2025

1 in 12,000

Tallulah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tallulah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tallulah means

Tallulah is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Cherokee Tallulah, name of a river in Georgia. See etymology section of Wikipedia article Tallulah River.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Tallulah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tallulah is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Tallulah is pronounced /təˈlu.lə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,102 girls were recorded with the name Tallulah between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 345 in 2023; its best national rank was #811 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,128 in 2020 to #940 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,453 in 2015 to #940 in 2025.

How common is Tallulah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,000
276 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,820
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#940
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,327 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tallulah 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,327 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tallulah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tallulahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tallulah was born before 2018 — so the typical Tallulah is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,976
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2020s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (1,687).

Is Tallulah 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
−125
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+188
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+513
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.74×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2023 (345)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#811
2023

Spellings of Tallulah

Tallulah is the most-used spelling, taking 87.9% of the 4,668 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Tallulah is used

Across 2016–2025, Tallulah was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 6,836 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 16,667).

631 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 3,226
  2. 2Georgia1 in 3,448
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 4,167
  4. 4Michigan1 in 4,762
  5. 5South Dakota1 in 4,762
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 4,762
  7. 7Colorado1 in 5,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 5,000

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.

Tallulah around the world

Where Tallulah 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
    #253
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2009–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1995–2023
    #4,732
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,151
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #818
    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 Tallulah

People whose public names include Tallulah, 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.

Tallulah in other languages

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

TallulaTalulah

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

Tallulah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#940
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 188
Best rank ever
#811
2023
Peak year
2023
345 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,102
Count in 2025
276

Names similar to Tallulah

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

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Names with a curve like Tallulah

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

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Sibling names for Tallulah

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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