Talena

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Talena by the numbers

Talena was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 38 babies in 1976, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Talena

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Talena. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Taleacutting or shoot from a plant11 in the US (2017)
  • Taleiablooming flower; a form of Thalia9 in the US (2017)
  • Talen29 in the US (2017)
  • Talina11 in the US (2017)
  • Taleya6 in the US (2017)
  • Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Talena

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