Tallulah
loc · Latin script
Meaning: American: running water
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tallulah is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
American: running water.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Tallulah, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tallulah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.3K | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 26 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 25 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 20 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 16 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tallulah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: rare name, chosen occasionally as a result of the fame of the American actress Tallulah Bankhead (1903–68). In spite of its exotic appearance, her given name was not adopted for the sake of her career but inherited from her grandmother. It may be a variant of TALULLA ; or it may be taken from the placename Tallulah Falls, Georgia, which is of American Indian origin.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tallulah Bankheadb. 1902USactress
- Tallulah Harlechb. 1988GBEnglish model and actress
- Tallulah Mortonb. 1991AUAustralian model
- Tallulah Willisb. 1994USAmerican actress; youngest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
- Tallulah Haddonb. 1997GBactress, artist and model
- Tallulah Greiveb. 1997GBScottish actress
- Iris Lawb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameBritish model
- Tallulah Evansb. 2000GBBritish actress (born 2000)
- Emma Tallulah Behnb. 2008NONorwegian show jumper, youngest child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn
- Daisy Syron RussellGBnot in their usual nameBritish musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,848 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 345 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 341 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 276 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 262 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 249 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 214 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 189 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 185 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 181 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #21,026 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tallulah mean, and where does it come from?
- American: running water. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Tallulah have the most bearers?
- Tallulah is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Tallulah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tallulahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tallulah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.