Thalia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name borne in classical mythology by the Muse of comedy; it is derived from Greek thallein ‘to flourish’, and has occasionally been chosen in recent years by parents in the English-speaking world in s
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thalia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.3K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 7.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Thalia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
27,074 named Talia, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Name borne in classical mythology by the Muse of comedy; it is derived from Greek thallein ‘to flourish’, and has occasionally been chosen in recent years by parents in the English-speaking world in search of novelty. Variant: Talia (see also }Talya).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thalia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #826 | 27,074as Talia | 1 in 7.8K | 31K | Thalia | 112 |
| US United States | — | 26,072as Talia | 1 in 13K | 26K | Thalia | 331 |
| EC Ecuador | #427 | 6,189 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.2K | Thalia | 34 |
| PE Peru | #573 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Thalia | 58 |
| CO Colombia | #747 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Thalia | 48 |
| PY Paraguay | #430 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Thalia | 20 |
| CY Cyprus | #949 | 438as Θαλεια | 1 in 2.9K | 438 | Thalia | 29 |
27,074 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling talia. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
Thalia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, muse of comedy; one of the Graces
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, street. New Orleans
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, thallium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, element
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Thalia Flora-Karaviab. 1871GRGreek painter (1871-1960)
- Thalia Gouma-Petersonb. 1933USEducator and art historian
- Thalia Assurasb. 1957CACanadian television journalist, news anchor, and media consultant
- Thalia Zedekb. 1961USAmerican musician
- Thalia Fieldb. 1966USAmerican writer
- Thalíab. 1971MXMexican singer and actress (born 1971)
- Thalia Munrob. 1982USAmerican water polo player
- Efthalia Koutroumanidoub. 1982GRnot in their usual nameGreek beach volleyball player
- Thalía Olvidób. 1999VEVenezuelan model and beauty queen
- Talia Bessonb. 2001FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
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 80 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 23K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23K | #962 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 13K | #1,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,132 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 6.2K | #304 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 446 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 134 | #962 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 54 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #2,132 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Thalia mean, and where does it come from?
- Name borne in classical mythology by the Muse of comedy; it is derived from Greek thallein ‘to flourish’, and has occasionally been chosen in recent years by parents in the English-speaking world in s… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Thalia a male or female name?
- Thalia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Thalia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Talia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Thalia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thalia is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thalia?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,189 people named Thalia in 2024, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Thalia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Thalia is the 826th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thaliaThe 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, “Thalia” — the 826th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.