girls:
1.5k births since 1967
#4262 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1967
#6267 (19th percentile)
The name Talaya is the #6,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,478 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 19.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,262 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,478 births since 1967.
Talaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for girls in 1967).
For girls, Talaya reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #889) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Talaya ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 67.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Talaya".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Talaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.6% confident that Talaya is pronounced as tuh-LAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-LAI-uh, at 9.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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