girls:
51 births since 2005
#5665 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1985
#1977 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1985
#4369 (44th percentile)
The name Talan is the #4,369 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,960 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 43.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,977 (56.9% percentile) for all time with 3,909 births since 1985. For girls, it ranks #5,665 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 2005.
Talan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Talan is available in 34 out of the 39 years between 1985 and 2023 (34 years for boys and 5 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 Talan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Talan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 65.7% percentile (ranked #301) with 483 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 483 births per million (ranked 65.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Talan ranks #874 for boys (4.1% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Talan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #950) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Talan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Talan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Talan is pronounced as TAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-LUHN, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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