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Talos

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Talos has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 2017. 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 2017, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Talos, 2021

1 in 565,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talos: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talos means

Talos is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Talos is used in Sakizaya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Talos is pronounced /ta.ˈlos/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Talos between 2017 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2017; its best national rank was #11,964 in 2021.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Talos?

Talos had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talos 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taloss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talos was born before 2017 — so the typical Talos is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Talos 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (6)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,964
2021

Spellings of Talos

Talos is not the most common spelling — Carlos is, with 58.9% against Talos's <0.01%.

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.

Talos 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
#11,964
2021
Peak year
2017
6 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Talos

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

TalmaTaleekTalisTalatTalerTaliaTalynnTalmonTalentTalebTaliqTalusEulosTalfordTalhahTalmerTaliqueTaliekTallynTalbottTalionArlosTallyTali

Sibling names for Talos

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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