Meaning not yet researched.
Talon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #426 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #426 in 2006; #1,181 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Talon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,181 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #426.
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Talon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 boys in 2025. Peak: #426 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 661 (2006).
In 2025, 175 US boys were named Talon, making it the 1,181st most common boys’ name of the year, down 135 places from #1,046 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 212 boys named Talon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #426, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 661. For comparison, it was #614 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Talon in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 13,039 US babies have been given the name, 4.2% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,583 babies named Talon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,863 US boys were named Talon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 408. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Talon ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #609 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Talan (4,033 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 Tallon, Talin and Taylyn 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: Tallon (1,090), Talin (1,028), Taylyn (1,004), Tailyn (824), Talynn (727), Tallen (583), Taline (342), Tallan (163), Tallyn (133), Taelon (103), Taelin (103), Tallin (84), and more.
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 Talon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #609 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #713 | #621 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #785 | #503 |
| Washington | 8 | #796 | #429 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #798 | #372 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #804 | #489 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #830 | #587 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,003 | #466 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,165 | #1,001 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,456 | #974 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,522 | #734 |
| California | 9 | #1,814 | #739 |
| New York | 5 | #2,012 | #1,149 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,056 | 175 | #1,181 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,499 | 212 | #1,046 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,935 | 236 | #958 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,255 | 247 | #933 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,992 | 308 | #797 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,362 | 295 | #789 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,374 | 356 | #703 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,751 | 314 | #756 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,409 | 312 | #756 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,778 | 408 | #649 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,083 | 438 | #614 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,274 | 495 | #558 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,927 | 552 | #496 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,692 | 513 | #514 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,742 | 500 | #516 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,550 | 569 | #463 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,333 | 638 | #440 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,481 | 593 | #466 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,572 | 640 | #436 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,112 | 661 | #426 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,225 | 356 | #623 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,797 | 239 | #763 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,357 | 244 | #740 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,245 | 296 | #648 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,794 | 292 | #641 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,295 | 252 | #700 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,298 | 250 | #677 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,335 | 237 | #705 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,645 | 229 | #698 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,263 | 219 | #720 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,600 | 171 | #822 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,554 | 152 | #880 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,407 | 150 | #870 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,605 | 157 | #842 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,161 | 124 | #961 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,829 | 124 | #929 |
| 1989 | — | — | 72 | #1,292 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,659 | 55 | #1,424 |
| 1987 | — | — | 74 | #1,122 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,435 | 72 | #1,113 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,540 | 76 | #1,062 |
| 1984 | — | — | 55 | #1,249 |
| 1983 | — | — | 57 | #1,218 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,768 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,162 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,097 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,364 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,517 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,760 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,393 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,383 |
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).