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Taliah

Feminine · “dew”

1976high 2009
#2076 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare90 girls in 2025

Taliah is dew from heaven in Hebrew — tal, dew — and it is also a lamb, because the same three letters make both words.

How old is the name Taliah?

Taliah first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Taliah alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 3,400 people named Taliah are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Taliah most popular?

Taliah peaked in 2009, reaching #1528 nationally. Today it ranks #2076, 548 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Taliah

Dew is a serious matter in a dry country, and Hebrew liturgy has a prayer for it recited from Passover to Sukkot. Talya and Talia are standard modern Israeli names. The Arabic Taliah, from a root meaning to rise, is a separate name that shares the spelling. Taliah appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

dew; lamb

From the Hebrew talya, which means both 'dew of God' — tal, 'dew', with the divine ending — and 'lamb' or 'young ewe'. Hebrew genuinely carries both senses in the same root letters. The Arabic Taliah, 'ascending', is a separate name. The Hebrew is documented.

How the name formed

  1. tal
  2. Talya
  3. Taliah

Related forms: טליה · Talia · Talya

Pronouncing Taliah

TAH-lee-ah

Three syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew stresses the final syllable, tal-YAH.

Nicknames for Taliah

Moderate

TaliThe front of the name, and a name in its own right in Hebrew
LiaThe back of the name, and a name of its own across Europe
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1976–20251487401489019762025

US babies named Taliah per year from 1976 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#15281970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1976
Most girls named
2009148 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1528reached in 2009
Change vs 2024
+2.3%90 in 2025, from 88
Taliah sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2009, with 148 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Taliah in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • טליה in Hebrew — transliteration
  • Talia in English — spelling variant
  • Talya in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, California.

Taliahs among us

3,400

people named Taliah are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 17,859 born in 2025 was named Taliah

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Taliah

#2076
Taliah on the 2025 chart
#208
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Taliah went to 90 girls in 2025, but Talia, Taliyah and Talya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 1,586, which makes it the 208th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,868 places above the chart.

and 1 rarer spelling.

About 1 girl in 1,013 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 17,859 for Taliah itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Krishna test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Taliah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Krishna climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Krishna's path sketches the road Taliah is walking now.

40%chance Taliah will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Taliah, aligned on its peakKrishna· peak 1971not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+50 yrsKrishna · #7403Taliah today
Taliah today is about where Krishna stood in 1987 — 16 years past a #1528-sized peak. By 2002, Krishna had settled around #3848.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Taliah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Taliah is headed

19762030

US babies named Taliah per year, 1976 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Taliah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-9% by 2030projected around #2,342 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Taliah beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Taliah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Taliahthis name90#2076Acelynn90#2076Shaindy90#2076Everlynn90#2076Blayke90#2076

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the same Hebrew letters give both dew and lamb is a first-rate detail.
  • Tali and Lia are two short forms, both real names in their own right.
  • Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
What to consider
  • Talia is the commoner spelling.
  • The Arabic name of the same spelling is unrelated.
  • Hebrew and English stress it differently.

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Frequently asked

How many Taliahs are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,400 people named Taliah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Taliah?
Taliah is one of 6 recorded spellings. Talia is the more common one — 1,180 births in 2025 against 90 for Taliah.
How popular is the name Taliah in 2025?
Taliah ranks #2076 among US girl names in 2025, with 90 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Taliah?
About 1 in every 17,859 US girls born in 2025 was named Taliah — 90 in all.
Will my child share the name Taliah with classmates?
Taliah will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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