girl's name

Thalia

  • Origin Greek
  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 24,609

the United States

#647

2025 births

Thalia is a girl's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 446 babies in the United States, ranking #647. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Thalia is a name of Greek origin.
  • Peaked in 1993, when 700 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 7,434 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1885.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Thalia over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1880s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,850
'80 '90 '00 '10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Thalia by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1880s 5
1890s 6
1900s 48
1910s 189
1920s 300
1930s 297
1940s 263
1950s 300
1960s 459
1970s 370
1980s 512
1990s 3,815
2000s 3,850
2010s 3,234
2020s (to 2025) 2,616

How popular is Thalia?

In 2025, Thalia was given to 446 babies in the United States, ranking #647 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Thalia is used

France #239 260 in 2025
Scotland #455 7 in 2024
England & Wales #506 80 in 2025
Ireland #523 7 in 2025
Canada #539 55 in 2024
United States #647 446 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Thalia is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Thalïa Thalïa is Thalia written with a diaeresis, used in France, where it ranks #1,569. 115

Names that peaked alongside Thalia

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Thalia also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Thalia over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Thalia in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Tahlia

Sibling names for Thalia

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Thalia — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Thalia

How popular is the name Thalia?

In 2025, Thalia was given to 446 babies in the United States, ranking #647 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Thalia a girl's or a boy's name?

Thalia is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Thalia?

Thalia has 2 syllables.

When was Thalia most popular?

Thalia peaked in 1993, when 700 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Thalia a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Thalia currently ranks #239 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.