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Talya

Feminine · “dew of God”

1961high 2014
#2583 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare67 girls in 2025

Talya is dew of God in Hebrew — tal, dew — and it is also a lamb, because the same three letters make both words.

How old is the name Talya?

Talya first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Talya alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 3,000 people named Talya are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Talya most popular?

Talya peaked in 2014, reaching #1922 nationally. Today it ranks #2583, 661 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Talya

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, and the same letters give a lamb. It appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

dew of God; 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 letters. The Arabic Taliah is a separate name. The Hebrew is documented.

How the name formed

  1. tal
  2. Talya

Related forms: טליה · Talia · Taliah

Pronouncing Talya

TAHL-yah

Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew stresses the last, tal-YAH.

Nicknames for Talya

Moderate

TaliThe front of the name, and a name in its own right in Hebrew
LyaThe back sound alone, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1961–20251045201046719612025

US babies named Talya per year from 1961 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#19221960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1961
Most girls named
2014104 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1922reached in 2014
Change vs 2024
+11.7%67 in 2025, from 60
Talya sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2014, with 104 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.

Talya in other languages

The same name elsewhere

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

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

Talyas among us

3,000

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

About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was named Talya

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

Spellings of Talya

#2583
Talya on the 2025 chart
#208
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Talya went to 67 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 — 2,375 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 23,989 for Talya 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 Naimah test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Talya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Naimah climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Naimah's path sketches the road Talya is walking now.

40%chance Talya will feel dated by 2040
Talya, aligned on its peakNaimah· peak 1977not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsNaimah · #5924Talya today
Talya today is about where Naimah stood in 1988 — 11 years past a #1922-sized peak. By 2003, Naimah had settled around #3806.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Talya 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 Talya is headed

19612030

US babies named Talya per year, 1961 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

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

Steady+6% by 2030projected around #2,603 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.

Talya beside its neighbors

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

Talyathis name67#2583Azra67#2583Maleni67#2583Liba67#2583Xylah67#2583

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 is available as a short form that is a real Hebrew name.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • Talia is the commoner spelling.
  • Hebrew and English stress it differently.
  • The Arabic name of the same spelling is unrelated.

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Frequently asked

How many Talyas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,000 people named Talya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Talya?
Talya is one of 6 recorded spellings. Talia is the more common one — 1,180 births in 2025 against 67 for Talya.
How popular is the name Talya in 2025?
Talya ranks #2583 among US girl names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Talya?
About 1 in every 23,989 US girls born in 2025 was named Talya — 67 in all.
Will my child share the name Talya with classmates?
Talya will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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