Meaning not yet researched.
Talan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #309 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #309 in 2006; #3,439 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Talan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,439 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #309.
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Talan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #309 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 1,060 (2006).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Talan, making it the 3,439th most common boys’ name of the year, down 285 places from #3,154 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 39 boys named Talan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #309, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,060. For comparison, it was #1,907 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Talan in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 7 babies. In all, 4,033 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,644 babies named Talan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 494 US boys were named Talan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Talon (13,039 babies since 1880), Taylin (3,672 babies since 1880), Taylen (3,440 babies since 1880) and Taelyn (2,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thailan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Thailan (150).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Talan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 34 | #3,439 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,154 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,997 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,330 |
| 2021 | — | — | 40 | #3,069 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,724 |
| 2019 | — | — | 50 | #2,619 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,544 |
| 2017 | — | — | 66 | #2,108 |
| 2016 | — | — | 90 | #1,736 |
| 2015 | — | — | 77 | #1,907 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,943 | 105 | #1,532 |
| 2013 | — | — | 136 | #1,284 |
| 2012 | — | — | 148 | #1,210 |
| 2011 | — | — | 139 | #1,248 |
| 2010 | — | — | 202 | #979 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,069 | 266 | #826 |
| 2008 | — | — | 319 | #726 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,571 | 455 | #567 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,330 | 1,060 | #309 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,826 | 446 | #542 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,396 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,181 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,983 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,968 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,600 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,840 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,127 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,146 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,757 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,661 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,982 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,119 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,151 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,858 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,700 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).