Talmage
Talmage is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 553rd, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192252 births
- Best rank
- #553in 1895
- Since 1881
- 2,281people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,281 boys have been named Talmage in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 52 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Talmage | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 26 | |
| 1890s | 62 | |
| 1900s | 32 | |
| 1910s | 291 | |
| 1920s | 419 | |
| 1930s | 292 | |
| 1940s | 192 | |
| 1950s | 128 | |
| 1960s | 86 | |
| 1970s | 60 | |
| 1980s | 77 | |
| 1990s | 90 | |
| 2000s | 242 | |
| 2010s | 228 | |
| 2020s | 56 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Talmage was the 989th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Talmage
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Newmanpeak 1921
- Albinpeak 1919
- Arvidpeak 1916
- Waltonpeak 1922
- Merrittpeak 1924
- Earlpeak 1921
- Gerhardpeak 1917
- Earlepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.