Talita
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- tah-LEE-ta
- Origin
- Aramaic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Talita is a girls' name of Aramaic origin, meaning “little girl”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Talita mean?
Aramaic: from Aramaic talitha 'little girl'
“little girl”
From Talitha koum, the Aramaic words of Jesus to a girl in the Gospel of Mark, meaning little girl, arise.
Is Talita a girl's or a boy's name?
Talita is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Talita in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Talita, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2001, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
2025 had more girls named Talita than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Talita in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Talita in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,417 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,647 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,257 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,541 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,361 |
Names like Talita
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ximena, Solana, Amara, Alora, Tiana, Ariana, Sophia, Anika, Aisha, Samara, Dayana, Amora
Names related to Talita
More Aramaic names
Thomas, Tommy, Martha, Barnaby, Barney, Tabitha, Tomas, Tadeo, Tom, Thaddeus, Tomos, Marta, Tommie, Tomi, Saphira, Tommaso
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Talita: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/talita, updated 20 October 2026.