Talyn
#6,298 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Talyn has been given to 1,833 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #6,298 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 70 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.
Babies named Talyn, 2025
1 in 174,000
Talyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Talyn over time
In 2025, Talyn went to 68% girls and 32% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Talyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 84,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,298
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Talyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Talyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Talyn was born before 2008 — so the typical Talyn is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 972
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (399).
Is Talyn 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
- +5,745
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −652
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,457
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.66×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.1%
- Peak was 2006 (70)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Talyn
Talyn is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 18.6% against Talyn's 0.15%.
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 Talyn is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Talyn was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 462,049 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Talyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Talyn is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Talyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,005,698 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Colorado1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Iowa1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Louisiana1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Talyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Talyn around the world
Where Talyn 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 & Wales2020–2020#5,493in 2020
- Canada2007–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Talyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Talyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Talyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.