Tallulah

What Tallulah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Tallulah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #253 vs #939 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Tallulah?

US: Rising: up from #1448 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #323 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 345 girls got the name (#810 that year). First in the US records in 1917.

How common

• About 1 in 5,823 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,369 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.61 per 1,000 girls), AL (0.55 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Tallulah is #939 in the US and #253 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Tallulah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Talulah38 US · 14 E&W
• Talula19 US
• Tallula10 US · 7 E&W
• Talullah10 US · 4 E&W
• Tullulah6 US · 4 E&W
• Talylah7 US
• Talilah6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Talulah

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Tallulah

Girls

• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Journee#258Editor’s note 1,198 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Adalyn#260Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025

For a brother

• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Maddox#209Editor’s note Down from #148 in 2015 to #209 in 2025 in the US
• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Tallulah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.