Taliya
Feminine · “dew of God”
Taliya is built on the Hebrew tal, dew — a word that carries more weight in a dry country than it does in a wet one.
How old is the name Taliya?
Taliya first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Taliya alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,100 people named Taliya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taliya most popular?
Taliya peaked in 2004, reaching #2503 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 1,849 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
Where it comes from
From tal to Taliya
The story of Taliya
Dew mattered in the agriculture of the Levant in a way that is hard to feel in a rainy climate — the summer has no rain at all, and the prayer for dew is said at Passover as a separate liturgical item from the prayer for rain. Tal is the word. Modern Israeli naming took it and its compounds heavily, and Taliya reaches American records with Israeli and Jewish families.
Meaning
dew of God
From Hebrew tal, dew, with the divine element -ya; the same word opens Talia and Talya. A separate Hebrew taleh means a lamb, and the two are sometimes confused. Dew is the better-supported reading.
How the name formed
- tal
- Talya
- Taliya
Related forms: Talya · Talia · Talia
Pronouncing Taliya
tah-LEE-yah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last.
Nicknames for Taliya
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 200467 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2503reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −27.3%32 in 2025, from 44
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.
Taliya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Talya in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Talia in English — spelling variant
- Talia in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.
Taliyas among us
people named Taliya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Taliya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Taliya
- #4352
- Taliya on the 2025 chart
- #208
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Taliya went to 32 girls in 2025, but Talia, Taliyah and Taliah 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 — 4,144 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 50,227 for Taliya 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kathlynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Taliya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kathlynn climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kathlynn's path sketches the road Taliya is walking now.
Taliya 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 Taliya is headed
Taliya looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 25% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Taliya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Taliya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely specific agricultural weight behind it.
- Tal and Tali are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Talia and Talya are both more common in America and will be assumed.
- The stress differs between the Hebrew and American readings.
- It is close to Natalia and Tahlia in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taliyas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Taliya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Taliya?
- Taliya is one of 6 recorded spellings. Talia is the more common one — 1,180 births in 2025 against 32 for Taliya.
- How popular is the name Taliya in 2025?
- Taliya ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Taliya?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Taliya — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Taliya with classmates?
- Taliya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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