Tala
#1,211 for girls in 2025, 187 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 187 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,497since 1953
Tala over time
Rank among girls' names. Tala has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,211 | 187 |
| 2024 | #1,326 | 173 |
| 2023 | #1,459 | 152 |
| 2022 | #1,548 | 138 |
| 2021 | #1,460 | 147 |
| 2020 | #1,533 | 138 |
| 2019 | #1,392 | 161 |
| 2018 | #1,623 | 131 |
| 2017 | #1,392 | 165 |
| 2016 | #1,644 | 132 |
| 2015 | #1,778 | 117 |
| 2014 | #1,583 | 136 |
| 2013 | #1,576 | 136 |
| 2012 | #1,875 | 107 |
| 2011 | #2,026 | 96 |
| 2010 | #2,405 | 78 |
| 2009 | #2,244 | 87 |
| 2008 | #2,754 | 66 |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 |
| 2005 | #2,482 | 70 |
| 2004 | #1,989 | 93 |
| 2003 | #2,556 | 63 |
| 2002 | #2,310 | 70 |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 91 |
| 2000 | #1,998 | 83 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 |
| 1998 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tala! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tala is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#655 · 1 in 3,409
- New Jersey#667 · 1 in 3,167
- Louisiana#727 · 1 in 3,083
- Michigan#874 · 1 in 4,731
- Ohio#1,035 · 1 in 5,988
Best ever in a state: #540 in Connecticut, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #655 | 7 | 1 in 3,409 |
| New Jersey | #667 | 11 | 1 in 3,167 |
| Louisiana | #727 | 6 | 1 in 3,083 |
| Michigan | #874 | 8 | 1 in 4,731 |
| Ohio | #1,035 | 8 | 1 in 5,988 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 7 | 1 in 6,965 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,400 | 5 | 1 in 9,670 |
| New York | #1,514 | 8 | 1 in 9,948 |
| California | #1,708 | 13 | 1 in 13,401 |
| Florida | #1,748 | 6 | 1 in 13,409 |
| Texas | #1,948 | 10 | 1 in 15,294 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tala
- 115 spots since 2024 (#1,326 → #1,211)
- 322 spots since 2020 (#1,533 → #1,211)
- 567 spots since 2015 (#1,778 → #1,211)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2025 at #1,211 (187 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,595 girls born in 2025 were named Tala (0.01%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Tala (1,259) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 10 | #5,673 (1953) | #5,880 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 49 | #5,215 (1976) | #7,348 |
| 1980s | 101 | #4,737 (1984) | #6,789 |
| 1990s | 380 | #2,188 (1998) | #3,736 |
| 2000s | 763 | #1,901 (2001) | #2,352 |
| 2010s | 1,259 | #1,392 (2017) | #1,729 |
| 2020s | 935 | #1,211 (2025) | #1,423 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tala in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 11,714 of them was named Tala, which outranked 91.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,524Mariela139
- #1,524Merritt139
- #1,524Yarely139
- #1,533Tala138
- #1,533Aanya138
- #1,533Anita138
- #1,533Ariadna138
- #1,545Annabeth137
- #1,545Donna137
- #1,545Joan137
Tied with 11 names at #1,533; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.