Talyn
Masculine · “Hebrew tal”
Talyn is given to both — 861 boys and 972 girls since 1880. See Talyn as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Tal is Hebrew for dew, and in a dry country dew is not a small thing. It is the water that arrives without rain, and the blessing Isaac gives Jacob asks for the dew of heaven before it asks for anything else. A weather word means something different depending on the climate that produced it.
How old is the name Talyn?
Talyn first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Talyn alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 900 people named Talyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Talyn most popular?
Talyn peaked in 2006, reaching #1654 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 6,589 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tal to Talyn
The story of Talyn
Dew matters in the eastern Mediterranean in a way it does not in northern Europe. Through the long rainless summer, condensation on the ground is a meaningful part of the water available to plants, and the biblical texts treat it as a form of provision distinct from rain and sometimes more reliable. Isaac's blessing asks for the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth; Gideon tests a sign with a fleece and dew; Hosea has God promising to be as the dew to Israel. Modern Hebrew keeps tal as an ordinary word and as a common unisex name, alongside a whole set of weather and nature names, Geshem for rain, Barak for lightning, Or for light, Shachar for dawn, which is a distinctively Israeli naming pattern of the twentieth century. The American compound borrows the stem without the pattern.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew tal, dew
Talyn joins the Hebrew element tal, dew, to the -lyn ending common in American naming. Tal is a genuine modern Israeli given name used for both sexes, and appears in Talia and Tallulah-adjacent names. The compound Talyn is American and is not attested in Hebrew, so the meaning belongs to the stem rather than to the whole. It peaks in 2006.
How the name formed
- tal
- Talyn
Related forms: Tal
Pronouncing Talyn
TAL-in
Two syllables, stress on the first, short a. The final vowel is reduced, so Talyn, Talan and Talon are near-homophones. Talon is also an English word for a claw.
Nicknames for Talyn
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
- 1988
- Most boys named
- 200686 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1654reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%9 in 2025, from 9
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.
Talyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tal in Hebrew — related form
Talyns among us
people named Talyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Talyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Talyn
- #8243
- Talyn on the 2025 chart
- #913
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Talyn went to 9 boys in 2025, but Talin is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 15, which makes it the 913th most-given boys’ name of the year — 7,330 places above the chart.
- Talyn9
- Talin6
About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 189,786 for Talyn 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 Padraic test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Talyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Padraic climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Padraic's path sketches the road Talyn is walking now.
Talyn 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
Talyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Talyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew stem has a settled and attractive meaning.
- Tal works as a short form in Hebrew and English alike.
- It is short and easy to say.
- The -lyn ending reads as female in American writing.
- Talon, an English word, is a near-homophone.
- The compound has no meaning as a whole.
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Masculine · #8243 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Talyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Talyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Talyn?
- Talyn is the most-used spelling in US records — 9 of the 15 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Talin.
- How popular is the name Talyn in 2025?
- Talyn ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Talyn?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Talyn — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Talyn with classmates?
- Talyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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