Tal
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 69.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 87 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,265since 1937
Tal over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,157 | 11 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,507 | 16 | |
| 2014 | — | #8,130 | 9 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,537 | 10 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #2,887 | 35 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #3,410 | 25 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 | #2,154 | 32 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | — | #2,399 | 15 | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #1,814 | 18 |
| 1965 | — | #1,456 | 28 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,096 | 48 | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | #813 | 87 |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,535 | 11 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tal! It came in at #3,518, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1953, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tal
- 3,744 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #7,194)
- 3,411 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #7,194)
- 1,687 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #7,194)
- Biggest jump: 1,551 spots in 1963 (#2,364 → #813)
- Biggest drop: 283 spots in 1964 (#813 → #1,096)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1963 at #813 (87 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1963
- Highest: 1 in 23,346 boys born in 1963 were named Tal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.3% of all boys named Tal (257) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1990, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,518 (1937) | #3,518 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,525 (1946) | #3,525 |
| 1950s | 24 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,547 |
| 1960s | 240 | #813 (1963) | #2,218 |
| 1970s | 137 | #2,366 (1971) | #2,787 |
| 1980s | 203 | #2,096 (1986) | #2,615 |
| 1990s | 257 | #2,227 (1991) | #2,864 |
| 2000s | 228 | #2,887 (2004) | #4,183 |
| 2010s | 107 | #5,507 (2015) | #7,427 |
| 2020s | 59 | #6,147 (2022) | #8,210 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tal in 1963
Top girls' names in 1963
Top boys' names in 1963
More about 1963
girls
1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 275,358 of them was named Tal, which outranked 30.9% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 23,346 of them was named Tal, which outranked 82.4% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).