The name Talia is of Aramaic origin and means ‘youth’ or ‘the blooming one’. Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria. Early Aramaic inscriptions date from 11th century BC.
Talia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Talia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Talia ranks 300. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Talia. In the entire USA, approximately 28,278 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Talia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Talia is of Aramaic origin and means ‘youth’ or ‘the blooming one’. Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria. Early Aramaic inscriptions date from 11th century BC.
A folk etymology ... connects it to a Hebrew name for 'dew of God'.
Talia is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Talia cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #267 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2015. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Talia, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Talia 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 Talia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,048 babies were named Talia in 2022 - that's 1 in 141,443 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Talia ranked 278 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 five letters, the name Talia 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 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 Talia 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 Talia, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Talia
Talia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
L
I
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
I
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. Talia sounds like this:
