Talen is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Talen is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Talen. In the SmartGenius ranking, Talen is #2,212 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Talen.
Talen is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Talen cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #832 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2006. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Talen, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Talen seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Talen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
32 babies were named Talen in 2022 - that's 1 in 5,044,563 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Talen ranked 3,103 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Talen, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Talen. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Talen living in one state or another. If your name is Talen and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In South Dakota, which has the most people named Talen relative to the population, you still have to ask 71,098 men and boys their names before you hear Talen as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Talen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Talen 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 Talen, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Talen
Talen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
L
E
N
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
E
N
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. Talen sounds like this:
