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
- 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
Rank among boys' names. Talon has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #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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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.
See more about Talon
- 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)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2006 at #426 (661 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1990–2023
- 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
- 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.
Talon in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 175,475 of them was named Talon, which outranked 46.9% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,612Zriyah11
- #9,612Zurielle11
- #9,612Zykerria11
- #10,235Talon10
- #10,235Aadhira10
- #10,235Aalaysia10
- #10,235Aalina10
- #11,000Aaima9
- #11,000Aaisha9
- #11,000Aaliyana9
Tied with 764 names at #10,235; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 3,427 of them was named Talon, which outranked 96.5% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).