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Talmage

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Talmage has been given to 2,281 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Talmage, 2024

1 in 257,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talmage: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talmage means

Talmage is a given name.

The naming story behind Talmage

Wikidata records Talmage as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98827224, 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, 2,281 boys were recorded with the name Talmage between 1881 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1922; its best national rank was #553 in 1895.

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 Talmage?

Talmage had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 257,000
13 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 133,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
178,236 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talmage 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 2024 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 178,236 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talmage. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talmages were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talmage was born before 1941 — so the typical Talmage is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
967
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (419).

Is Talmage 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (52)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#553
1895

Spellings of Talmage

Talmage is not the most common spelling — Talmadge is, with 71.2% against Talmage's 28.8%.

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 Talmage is used

Across 1910–2025, Talmage was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 73,941 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 5,882
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Idaho1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Talmage has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Talmage by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#553
1895
Peak year
1922
52 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,281
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Talmage

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

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Names with a curve like Talmage

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

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Sibling names for Talmage

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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