Girl

Thalia

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#648
446 girls
2015
#798
rank
1950
#1,791
rank

Thalia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 446 in 2025. Its best rank was #363 in 1993.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #363 in 1993; #648 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Thalia in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#648 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #363.

Babies in 2025
446
Since 1880
16,264
Years on record
124

Babies named Thalia, every year since 1880

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Girls

Thalia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 446 girls in 2025. Peak: #363 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 700 (1993).

About the name Thalia

In 2025, 446 US girls were named Thalia, making it the 648th most common girls’ name of the year, up 7 places from #655 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 450 girls named Thalia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #363, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 700. For comparison, it was #798 in 2015 and #1,791 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Thalia in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 16,264 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,850 babies named Thalia.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,005 US girls were named Thalia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 522. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,604 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Thalia ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #215 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Talia (34,159 babies since 1880), Tahlia (3,504 babies since 1880), Taliah (3,462 babies since 1880) and Talya (3,001 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thaliyah and Thayli are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Greek. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Thaliyah (56), Thayli (11).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Thalia in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Thalia by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Rhode Island5#215—
Nebraska6#393—
Idaho6#399—
California74#457#836
Texas64#506#738
Connecticut6#538#573
Oregon7#543#459
Arizona12#574#458
Colorado10#581#567
Illinois17#595#659
Florida30#596#622
Maryland9#598#772
Virginia13#603#1,211
Washington10#674#761
Utah6#698—
New York24#701#754
New Jersey11#712#1,053
Pennsylvania14#722#1,016
Missouri8#723#737
North Carolina13#776#1,377
Michigan10#780#829
Indiana8#805#937
Massachusetts6#866#443
Ohio11#871#1,437
South Carolina5#906—
Tennessee7#971#1,237

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025446#648——
2024450#655——
2023522#570——
2022461#640——
2021399#718——
2020338#802——
2019327#831——
2018360#758——
2017350#787——
2016352#812——
2015354#798——
2014377#744——
2013307#849——
2012278#925——
2011257#991——
2010272#947——
2009277#965——
2008318#878——
2007351#820——
2006357#772——
2005412#676——
2004495#574——
2003431#623——
2002423#607——
2001388#652——
2000398#630——
1999380#627——
1998377#624——
1997441#541——
1996488#489——
1995500#494——
1994340#642——
1993700#363——
1992280#750——
1991155#1,148——
1990154#1,129——
1989117#1,332——
1988129#1,180——
198731#3,095——
198630#3,129——
198527#3,324——
198434#2,726——
198339#2,425——
198232#2,896——
198136#2,609——
198037#2,594——
197939#2,427——
197848#2,011——
197747#2,060——
197634#2,434——
197531#2,561——
197439#2,130——
197338#2,122——
197230#2,446——
197131#2,472——
197033#2,349——
196940#1,999——
196837#1,997——
196730#2,207——
196639#1,855——
196546#1,669——
196446#1,728——
196342#1,813——
196243#1,755——
196145#1,715——
196091#1,146——
195930#2,105——
195824#2,375——
195744#1,640——
195629#2,050——
195535#1,800——
195427#2,069——
195325#2,116——
195223#2,196——
195134#1,659——
195029#1,791——
194932#1,695——
194827#1,857——
194729#1,818——
194628#1,718——
194512#2,730——
194431#1,483——
194331#1,523——
194224#1,756——
194128#1,498——
194021#1,788——
193919#1,872——
193831#1,340——
193711#2,720——
193634#1,241——
193527#1,442——
193430#1,341——
193337#1,176——
193251#996——
193133#1,282——
193024#1,655——
192922#1,755——
192828#1,538——
192730#1,516——
192631#1,479——
192533#1,439——
192443#1,226——
192335#1,348——
192225#1,721——
192128#1,616——
192025#1,701——
191927#1,557——
191826#1,597——
191720#1,835——
191627#1,440——
191525#1,470——
191415#1,809——
191310#2,145——
191217#1,345——
191110#1,643——
191012#1,414——
19097#1,938——
190810#1,430——
19075#2,359——
190611#1,222——
19049#1,356——
19026#1,773——
18996#1,574——
18855#1,186——

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).