Talynn
Feminine
Talynn is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 717 girls against 10 boys since 1880.
The most productive suffix in American girls' naming came off a boy's name. Lynn was a man's name first, peaking for boys in the 1940s, and it now ends hundreds of women's names: Ashlynn, Katelynn, Brooklynn, Jaelynn, Adalynn.
How old is the name Talynn?
Talynn first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Talynn alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 700 people named Talynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Talynn most popular?
Talynn peaked in 2011, reaching #3659 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 5,798 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lynn to Talynn
Our story of Talynn
Lynn's career is a good demonstration of how a suffix is made. It began as a surname and a place name, was given to boys in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and peaked for them around the 1940s. It then crossed to girls, as surname names generally do once they sound right, and rose steeply through the 1950s and 1960s as a first and especially as a middle name. That middle-name use is the crucial step: a name used as a second element by hundreds of thousands of families stops being heard as a name and starts being heard as an ending. By the 1990s it was attaching to anything, in a bewildering variety of spellings, and the results now outnumber Lynn itself many times over. The suffix is more successful than the name ever was, and almost nobody using it knows it was ever male.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Talynn has no inherited etymology. It joins a Ta- opening to the -lynn ending. Lynn itself comes either from Welsh llyn, a lake, through English place names, or from a clipping of Linda and Caroline, and it was used for men before it was used for women. Neither source carries meaning here. The peak is 2011.
How the name formed
- Lynn
- Talynn
Related forms: Talyn · Talynne
Pronouncing Talynn
TAL-in
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some families stress the second, tah-LIN. The spelling settles neither.
Nicknames for Talynn
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 201142 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3659reached in 2011
- 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.
Talynn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Talyn in English — spelling variant
- Talynne in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Talynns among us
people named Talynn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Talynn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Talynn
- #9457
- Talynn on the 2025 chart
- #918
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Talynn went to 10 girls in 2025, but Talyn, Talin and Tallyn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 42, which makes it the 918th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,539 places above the chart.
- Talyn19
- Talynn10
- Talin8
- Tallyn5
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Talynn 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 Byron test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Talynn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Byron climbed just as high around 1930, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Byron's path sketches the road Talynn is walking now.
Talynn 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
Talynn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Talynn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lynn is available as a short form and is a familiar name.
- Two syllables and six letters, easy to say.
- The letters are all read the way they look.
- The stress placement is ambiguous.
- It is close to Tallinn, the Estonian capital.
- It has no meaning in any language.
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Frequently asked
- How many Talynns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Talynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Talynn?
- Talynn is one of 4 recorded spellings. Talyn is the more common one — 19 births in 2025 against 10 for Talynn.
- How popular is the name Talynn in 2025?
- Talynn ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Talynn?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Talynn — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Talynn with classmates?
- Talynn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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