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Talya

#2,604 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Talia

Talya has been given to 3,001 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #2,604 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Talya, 2025

1 in 49,500

Talya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Talia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talya means

Talya is a alternate transcription of Talia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Talya is a alternate transcription of Talia. Talia has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Talya is used in Cebuano and Tagalog.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Talia and Natalia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Talya is pronounced /ˈtalja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,001 girls were recorded with the name Talya between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,939 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,542 in 2020 to #2,604 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,962 in 2015 to #2,604 in 2025.

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 Talya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,604
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Talya was born before 2005 — so the typical Talya is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,001
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (836).

Is Talya 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
+213
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+938
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−642
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.4%
Peak was 2014 (104)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,939
2014

Spellings of Talya

Talya is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 11.9% against Talya's 0.20%.

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 Talya is used

Across 2016–2025, Talya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 30,337 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Talya around the world

Where Talya 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #798
    in 2011
  • France
    1991–2025
    #248
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Talya

People whose public names include Talya, 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.

Talya in other languages

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

TaliaTahlia

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

Talya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,604
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 938
Best rank ever
#1,939
2014
Peak year
2014
104 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,001
Count in 2025
67

Names similar to Talya

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

TaleahTaliahTalaTalynTalayaTaliTalithaTallyTalonTaleenTaliyaTalinaTalinTalynnAlyaTalisaTallieTaliaTaleaTalayahTallulahTaliyahTalyahTalula

Names with a curve like Talya

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

KalenaKeziaRianVeronikaJacelynVaniaZipporahNikaAniAllanaJoseyAnja

Sibling names for Talya

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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