Talon
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,176 for boys in 2025, 175 births
Given to boys 95.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 661 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 12,497since 1975
Talon over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Talon has never cracked the top 400 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,045 | 212 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #956 | 236 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #933 | 247 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #796 | 308 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #788 | 295 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #702 | 356 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #751 | 314 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #754 | 312 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #647 | 408 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #613 | 438 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #557 | 495 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #495 | 552 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #513 | 513 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #516 | 500 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #463 | 569 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #439 | 638 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #465 | 593 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #436 | 640 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #426 | 661 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #622 | 356 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #760 | 239 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #738 | 244 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | #648 | 296 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | #638 | 292 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #697 | 252 |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 | #675 | 250 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #702 | 237 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #696 | 229 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #717 | 219 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #820 | 171 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #872 | 152 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #864 | 150 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #841 | 157 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #959 | 124 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #926 | 124 |
| 1989 | — | #1,281 | 72 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,404 | 55 |
| 1987 | — | #1,114 | 74 | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,102 | 72 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #1,057 | 76 |
| 1984 | — | #1,240 | 55 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,205 | 57 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,734 | 33 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1975
The first year at least five boys were named Talon! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 131 spots since 2024 (#1,045 → #1,176)
- 388 spots since 2020 (#788 → #1,176)
- 563 spots since 2015 (#613 → #1,176)
- Biggest jump: 355 spots in 1990 (#1,281 → #926)
- Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2022 (#796 → #933)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2006 at #426 (661 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 34 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1990–2023
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,109
- Highest: 1 in 3,109 boys born in 2009 were named Talon (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,760 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #426 in 2006, was only 1 in 3,109 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 35.7% of all boys named Talon (4,457) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 34 | #4,068 (1979) | #4,746 |
| 1980s | 509 | #1,057 (1985) | #2,024 |
| 1990s | 1,813 | #675 (1999) | #807 |
| 2000s | 4,211 | #426 (2006) | #587 |
| 2010s | 4,457 | #463 (2010) | #601 |
| 2020s | 1,473 | #788 (2020) | #949 |
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.
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