How Many People Are Named Tallulah?
people named Tallulah are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 85,810 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,102 babies named Tallulah in Social Security records from 1917 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
345 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Popularly claimed to mean "leaping waters" in the Choctaw language, it may actually mean "town" in the Creek language. This is the name of waterfalls in Georgia. It was borne by American actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), who was named after her grandmother, who may have been named after the waterfalls.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Tallulah in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Tallulah alive today is about 10 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 14 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Tallulah first appears in the records in 1917 and was given most often in 2023, to 345 babies. In 2025, 276 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1917 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Tallulah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #811, in 2023. In 2025 it ranked #940.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #940 |
| Best rank | #811 (2023) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #941 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Tallulah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Tallulah were born in California than in any other state: about 516 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tallulah was given 2 times as often in Oregon, 1.9 times in Georgia and 1.5 times in New York.
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