Tallon
Masculine · “French "heel”
A talon is a heel. French talon comes from Latin talus, the ankle bone — and that same bone was the ancient world's die. Sheep and goat ankle bones fall on four distinguishable faces, and games of knucklebones were played with them for thousands of years.
How old is the name Tallon?
Tallon first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Tallon alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,100 people named Tallon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tallon most popular?
Tallon peaked in 2000, reaching #1768 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 5,911 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From talus to Tallon
The story of Tallon
The talus is roughly cubic with four flat faces and two rounded ones, so it lands on one of four sides and can be scored — which made it the standard randomising device across the ancient Mediterranean and beyond. Greek astragaloi and Roman tali were used for games and for divination, and Latin retained separate words for four-sided knucklebones and six-sided cubic dice. The word survives in English anatomy as talus and in the phrase to be at the mercy of the dice; the French heel sense gave English talon, and the Spanish talón. Tallon as an American given name peaks in 2000.
Meaning
French "heel", by way of the bird's claw
From Old French talon, a heel, from Latin talus, the ankle or heel bone. English borrowed it in the fourteenth century for a bird of prey's claw, taking the hind claw as the heel. Tallon and Talon are also Irish and English surnames of uncertain origin, possibly from the same French word as a byname. The doubled l is a surname spelling.
How the name formed
- talus
- talon
- Tallon
Related forms: Talon · Talon
Pronouncing Tallon
TAL-un
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the second reduced. The doubled l changes nothing audible; Talon and Tallon are said identically.
Nicknames for Tallon
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
- 1983
- Most boys named
- 200062 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1768reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −44.4%10 in 2025, from 18
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.
Tallon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Talon in English — spelling variant
- Talon in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Tallons among us
people named Tallon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Tallon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tallon
- #7679
- Tallon on the 2025 chart
- #744
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tallon went to 10 boys in 2025, but Talon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 185, which makes it the 744th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,935 places above the chart.
- Talon175
- Tallon10
About 1 boy in 9,233 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Tallon 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 Duffy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tallon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Duffy climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Duffy's path sketches the road Tallon is walking now.
Tallon 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
Tallon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tallon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is read correctly on sight and never mispronounced.
- Tal and Lon are ready short forms.
- The word behind it has a documented and unusual history.
- Talon with one l is the ordinary English word and the commoner spelling.
- The word names a bird of prey's claw, which is a specific image.
- The 2000 peak dates a bearer fairly precisely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tallons 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 Tallon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tallon?
- Tallon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Talon is the more common one — 175 births in 2025 against 10 for Tallon.
- How popular is the name Tallon in 2025?
- Tallon ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tallon?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Tallon — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tallon with classmates?
- Tallon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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