Meaning not yet researched.
Talen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #904 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #904 in 2006; #4,686 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Talen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,686 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #904.
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Talen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #904 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 216 (2006).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Talen, making it the 4,686th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,173 places from #3,513 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 33 boys named Talen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #904, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 216. For comparison, it was #2,295 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Talen in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 2,026 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 939 babies named Talen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 357 US boys were named Talen; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Talon (13,039 babies since 1880), Talan (4,033 babies since 1880), Taylin (3,672 babies since 1880) and Taylen (3,440 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Talen 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 | — | — | 22 | #4,686 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,513 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,621 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,604 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,170 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,260 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,521 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,884 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,757 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,927 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,295 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,417 | 70 | #2,040 |
| 2013 | — | — | 80 | #1,808 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,654 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,643 |
| 2010 | — | — | 119 | #1,407 |
| 2009 | — | — | 117 | #1,442 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,281 | 136 | #1,283 |
| 2007 | — | — | 197 | #992 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,986 | 216 | #904 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,233 | 79 | #1,708 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,876 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,125 | 31 | #3,106 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,179 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,380 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,332 | 27 | #3,215 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #3,022 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,992 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,717 | 22 | #3,334 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,583 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #4,025 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,096 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,420 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,733 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,467 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,952 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,341 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,847 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,696 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,208 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,251 |
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).