Thalia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Talia in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, SY Syria and 3 more and Θαλεια in CY Cyprus.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Thalia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name4.9K records spelled Thalia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Philippines

  Also written 'Thalia, Thalía, Thalia'

• a separate given name2.4K records spelled Thalia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Peru

  Also written Thalía, Thália

• Lao given name692 records spelled Thalia7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Thalía, ทาเลีย, Thalìa, Thália

• Croatian given name157 records spelled Thalia17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, North Macedonia, United States, Peru

  Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

  Also written Талија, Talija, Thália, Thalía

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, muse of comedy; one of the Graces

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, street. New Orleans

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, thallium

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, element

  as a name·Pronouncing 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 124 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 726 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thalia?

We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Thalia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Thalia have the most bearers?

Thalia is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled thalia.

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 Peru holds more of our records for it.

How common is Thalia compared with other names?

In Peru, Thalia is the 650th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Thalia mean?

Recorded 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…