In 2025, 8 US boys were named Talmadge, making it the 9,603rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,581 places from #12,184 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 boys named Talmadge in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #412, reached in 1933. That year also had the most boys given the name: 173. For comparison, it was #6,634 in 2015 and #972 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Talmadge in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 5,671 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,163 babies named Talmadge.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 82 US boys were named Talmadge; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.