Talmage
Recorded 1881–2024 · United States
Talmage was most popular in 1922, when 52 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,939 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,281 people named Talmage.
Talmage over time
How old is the name Talmage?
Talmage first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 126 of the 145 years since.
How many people are named Talmage?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,281 American births named Talmage between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,026 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Talmage in 2025?
Talmage was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Talmage getting more or less popular?
Talmage is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 12 births a year, against 25 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -52% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Talmage a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Talmage is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,281 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Talmage?
Roughly 1,026 Americans named Talmage are alive today — 45% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 26 years old, and half are between 16 and 62. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Talmage is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org