Given name & surname
Talbot
“born to the nobility”
Talbot is a variant of Talbert. One English interpretation is “born to the nobility.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Talbot is a variant of Talbert. One English interpretation is “born to the nobility.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Talbot is a variant of Talbert. An origin associated with Talbert is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Middle English talbot, from Old French talebot (“bandit”), from Old High German *Talbald, from Old High German tal (“valley, dale”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Talbot through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 461
- 450 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1969. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 461 as a first name in 2020; 15,197 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Talbot’s family of names
In English usage, Talbot has a diminutive in Talon. Talbot has a related form in Talbert.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Talbot
- Talbot MundyBritish writer, born William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940)
- Talbot Baines ReedEnglish author (1852-1893)
- Talbot HobbsAustralian military general and architect (1864-1938)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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