Thalya

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Thalya has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1993, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Thalya, 2023

1 in 663,000

Thalya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Thalya?

Thalya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thalya 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thalya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thalyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thalya was born before 2000 — so the typical Thalya is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
143
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Choose a decade

1990s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Thalya 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (16)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,927
1993

Spellings of Thalya

Thalya is not the most common spelling — Thelma is, with 49.5% against Thalya's 0.03%.

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 Thalya is used

Across 1910–2025, Thalya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,786,628 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Thalya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thalya around the world

Where Thalya 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.

  • France
    1999–2025
    #484
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2022
    #2,727
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Thalya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,927
1993
Peak year
1993
16 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thalya

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

Sibling names for Thalya

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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