Talon
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,176 for boys in 2025, 175 births
Given to boys 95.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 661 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 12,497since 1975
Talon over time
Rank among boys' names. Talon has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,045 | 212 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #956 | 236 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #933 | 247 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #796 | 308 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #788 | 295 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #702 | 356 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #751 | 314 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #754 | 312 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #647 | 408 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #613 | 438 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #557 | 495 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #495 | 552 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #513 | 513 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #516 | 500 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #463 | 569 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #439 | 638 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #465 | 593 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #436 | 640 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #426 | 661 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #622 | 356 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #760 | 239 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #738 | 244 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | #648 | 296 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | #638 | 292 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #697 | 252 |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 | #675 | 250 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #702 | 237 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #696 | 229 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #717 | 219 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #820 | 171 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #872 | 152 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #864 | 150 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #841 | 157 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #959 | 124 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #926 | 124 |
| 1989 | — | #1,281 | 72 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,404 | 55 |
| 1987 | — | #1,114 | 74 | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,102 | 72 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #1,057 | 76 |
| 1984 | — | #1,240 | 55 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,205 | 57 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,734 | 33 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Talon! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Talon is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#314 · 1 in 1,129
- Arkansas#316 · 1 in 1,372
- Oklahoma#323 · 1 in 1,289
- North Carolina#449 · 1 in 2,566
- Utah#460 · 1 in 2,258
Best ever in a state: #99 in Wyoming, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #314 | 7 | 1 in 1,129 |
| Arkansas | #316 | 10 | 1 in 1,372 |
| Oklahoma | #323 | 15 | 1 in 1,289 |
| North Carolina | #449 | 20 | 1 in 2,566 |
| Utah | #460 | 9 | 1 in 2,258 |
| Arizona | #470 | 14 | 1 in 2,473 |
| Kentucky | #510 | 7 | 1 in 3,091 |
| Oregon | #544 | 6 | 1 in 2,896 |
| Iowa | #559 | 5 | 1 in 2,972 |
| Wisconsin | #565 | 8 | 1 in 3,249 |
| Missouri | #571 | 9 | 1 in 3,400 |
| South Carolina | #590 | 6 | 1 in 3,500 |
| Washington | #620 | 10 | 1 in 3,556 |
| Pennsylvania | #705 | 11 | 1 in 5,292 |
| Illinois | #714 | 13 | 1 in 4,764 |
| Alabama | #728 | 5 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Indiana | #735 | 7 | 1 in 4,921 |
| Maryland | #773 | 5 | 1 in 5,301 |
| Florida | #917 | 13 | 1 in 7,436 |
| Virginia | #963 | 5 | 1 in 8,150 |
| Michigan | #970 | 6 | 1 in 7,737 |
| Ohio | #980 | 7 | 1 in 8,337 |
| Georgia | #991 | 7 | 1 in 7,670 |
| California | #1,012 | 21 | 1 in 10,272 |
| Texas | #1,043 | 18 | 1 in 9,787 |
| New York | #1,105 | 10 | 1 in 9,755 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Talon
- 131 spots since 2024 (#1,045 → #1,176)
- 388 spots since 2020 (#788 → #1,176)
- 563 spots since 2015 (#613 → #1,176)
- Biggest jump: 355 spots in 1990 (#1,281 → #926)
- Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2022 (#796 → #933)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2006 at #426 (661 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1990–2023
- Highest: 1 in 3,109 boys born in 2009 were named Talon (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,760 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #426 in 2006, was only 1 in 3,109 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.7% of all boys named Talon (4,457) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 34 | #4,068 (1979) | #4,746 |
| 1980s | 509 | #1,057 (1985) | #2,024 |
| 1990s | 1,813 | #675 (1999) | #807 |
| 2000s | 4,211 | #426 (2006) | #587 |
| 2010s | 4,457 | #463 (2010) | #601 |
| 2020s | 1,473 | #788 (2020) | #949 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Talon in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 107,904 of them was named Talon, which outranked 61.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,808Zaraya17
- #6,808Zowie17
- #6,808Zuriah17
- #7,092Talon16
- #7,092Aanika16
- #7,092Abra16
- #7,092Abrie16
- #7,442Aalijah15
- #7,442Abriel15
- #7,442Adalei15
Tied with 349 names at #7,092; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,933 of them was named Talon, which outranked 94.7% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).