girls:
536 births since 1963
#5180 (9th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1937
#3362 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1937
#5970 (23rd percentile)
The name Tal is the #5,970 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,783 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 22.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,362 (26.6% percentile) for all time with 1,247 births since 1937. For girls, it ranks #5,180 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 536 births since 1963.
Tal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for boys and 1963 for girls). Birth data for Tal is available in 70 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 47 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tal has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Tal were boys.
For boys, Tal reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 12.5% percentile (ranked #566) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 42 births per million (ranked 12.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tal ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 13.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tal reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #803) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tal".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Tal is pronounced as tahl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tal, at 34.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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