Talia - Origin and Meaning of the name

The girl name Talia [ syll. ta-lia, tal-ia ] is pronounced TAELiyah ^KEY. Talia has its origins in the Latin, Hebrew, and Old Greek languages. It is used largely in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. From Hebrew roots, its meaning is 'dew from God' - in this context, Talia is usually used in the Arabic and Hebrew languages. Derived from the word tal with the meaning 'dew'. Talia is the feminine equivalent of the Hebrew Tal.

In addition, Talia is an English short form of the English, French, and German Natalie.

Talia is also a spelling variant of the English Thalia.

Talia is rather popular as a baby girl name. The name has been growing in popularity since the 1970s; prior to that, it was of only very light use. Its usage peaked modestly in 2004 with 0.047% of baby girls being named Talia. It was #334 in rank then. In 2007, it ranked at #392 with a usage of 0.040%, and it was the 2nd most popular after the English, French, and German Natalie, among all girl names in its family. It was 12 times more popular than Talia in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Talia include the Italian Tullia, the Turkish Tülay, the Hebrew Tali, the English Tally, the Russian Talya, the English Thalia, the English Tillie, the English Tilly, the Hebrew Tal, the Dutch and German Tale, the English Thel, and the Finnish and Scandinavian Tuuli.

^KEY: approx pronunciation for Talia: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"

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for Talia
from 1900 to 2007

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for Talia
in 2007