Talulah
Feminine · “leaping water”
Talulah is a spelling of Tallulah, and its origin is genuinely argued — a Georgia waterfall and an Irish saint's name have both been offered, and they are unrelated.
How old is the name Talulah?
Talulah first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Talulah is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Talulah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Talulah most popular?
Talulah peaked in 2024, reaching #2857 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 975 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tallulah to Talulah
The story of Talulah
Tallulah Falls in north Georgia gave the American name, and the actress born in Alabama in 1902 gave it currency — she was named after a grandmother who was named after the falls. The Irish Tuilelaith is a separate early medieval saint's name that reached the same sound by a different road. Talulah with one l in the middle is a modern British and American respelling.
Meaningscholars disagree
leaping water, or lady of abundance
One reading takes it from Tallulah Falls in Georgia, whose name is from a Cherokee or Choctaw source; the gloss leaping water is widely repeated and not securely documented. A second derives it from Irish Tuilelaith, a saint's name read as lady of abundance.
How the name formed
- Tallulah
- Talulah
Related forms: Tallulah · Tuilelaith
Pronouncing Talulah
tuh-LOO-lah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Talulah
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 202458 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2857reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −34.5%38 in 2025, from 58
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.
Talulah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tallulah in English — spelling variant
- Tuilelaith in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, North Carolina, New York.
Talulahs among us
people named Talulah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Talulah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Talulah
- #3832
- Talulah on the 2025 chart
- #623
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Talulah went to 38 girls in 2025, but Tallulah, Talula and Tallula and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 359, which makes it the 623rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,209 places above the chart.
- Tallulah276
- Talulah38
- Talula19
- Tallula10
- Talullah10
- Talulla6
About 1 girl in 4,477 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Talulah 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 Clea test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Talulah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Clea climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Clea's path sketches the road Talulah is walking now.
Talulah 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 Talulah is headed
Talulah looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Talulah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Talulah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lulah and Lu are both warm and immediately usable short forms.
- Two documented ancestries, American and Irish, both real.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Tallulah is the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- The leaping water gloss is repeated everywhere and is not securely sourced.
- The mid-century actress is a strong association for older Americans.
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Frequently asked
- How many Talulahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Talulah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Talulah?
- Talulah is one of 6 recorded spellings. Tallulah is the more common one — 276 births in 2025 against 38 for Talulah.
- How popular is the name Talulah in 2025?
- Talulah ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Talulah?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Talulah — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Talulah with classmates?
- Talulah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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