The name Thalia is the Latinized form of the Greek Thaleia, meaning ‘to blossom’ from the verb ‘thallein’. In the US, Thalia has been known as a given name since the 1900s, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that it was slightly more popular.
Thalia is a first name for girls.
The name Thalia 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, Thalia ranks 712. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Thalia. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Thalia.
The name Thalia is the Latinized form of the Greek Thaleia, meaning ‘to blossom’ from the verb ‘thallein’. In the US, Thalia has been known as a given name since the 1900s, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that it was slightly more popular.
In Greek mythology... Thalia was one of the nine Muses, presiding over comedy and pastoral poetry.
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 six letters, the name Thalia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Thalia 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 Thalia, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Thalia
Thalia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
H
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
H
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. Thalia sounds like this:
