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Talmadge

#9,599 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Talmadge has been given to 5,671 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #9,599 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1933, with 173 recorded.

Babies named Talmadge, 2025

1 in 414,000

Talmadge over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talmadge: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talmadge means

Talmadge is a given name.

The naming story behind Talmadge

Wikidata records Talmadge as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q109232585, 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, 5,635 boys were recorded with the name Talmadge between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 173 in 1933; its best national rank was #412 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,856 in 2020 to #9,599 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,629 in 2015 to #9,599 in 2025.

In the United States, 36 girls were recorded with the name Talmadge between 1919 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1921; its best national rank was #4,382 in 1925.

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 Talmadge?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,599
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talmadge 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talmadge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talmadges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talmadge was born before 1938 — so the typical Talmadge is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,987
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1920s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (1,132).

Is Talmadge 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
+2,580
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,257
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,970
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.6%
Peak was 1933 (173)
Years since peak
92
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#412
1933

Spellings of Talmadge

Talmadge is the most-used spelling, taking 71.2% of the 7,916 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Talmadge71.2%5,635
  • Talmage28.8%2,281

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 Talmadge is used

Across 1910–2025, Talmadge was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 22,873 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 6,250
  2. 2Georgia1 in 6,250
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 8,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 9,091
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 9,091
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 33,333
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 33,333

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

Talmadge by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,599
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,257
Best rank ever
#412
1933
Peak year
1933
173 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,635
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,382
1925
Peak year
1921
7 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Talmadge

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

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Names with a curve like Talmadge

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

RollinBoyceElroyAlvisWinfordEldenLoyBertrandDenzilEldridgeAlfordVerlin

Sibling names for Talmadge

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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