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