Tala is a female first name.
Tala is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,459 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,458 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tala.
In fact, the name Tala did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Tala seemed to be more popular than ever in 2017. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,273, 165 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Tala, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tala was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Tala a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,400 - with a total of 138 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Tala are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Tala is registered in 19 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Tala live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 38,535 would turn around if you called the name Tala across California.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Tala is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tala and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tala, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tala
Tala
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tala sounds like this:
