Talya
Hebrew at root, from a word for "dew of god". Only about 40 women in Poland carry it and no girls were named Talya last year, so meeting one stays memorable.
Talya Pronunciation
Talya is pronounced tah-LIH-ah (/taˈlɨa/).
What Talya means
Where Talya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Talya grows from Hebrew. The name joins tal, dew, with yah, a short form of the divine name, so it reads as dew of God. Talia is the close variant, and the two forms trade places easily on a page.
Dew is small praise in Hebrew. It falls without thunder. Isaac's blessing to Jacob asks for the dew of heaven, tal ha-shamayim, in Genesis 27:28. Jewish liturgy also gives dew its own prayer, Tefillat Tal, recited at Passover when the season of rain ends. A child called Talya stands inside that picture of morning water blessed from above.
The meaning stays legible in Polish: boża rosa. On a Polish class register Talya would sit near Natalia and Julia, familiar in sound and clearly its own. No fixed saint holds its name-day, so an imieniny follows family choice. The variant Talia says the same thing, dew of God.
How many people are named Talya
1 in 549850 women in Poland is named Talya. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6079 among female names.
Talya as a middle name
Talya is a first name for 41 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6845th, between Talitha (2) and Tamina (2).
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#6843 Taja2
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#6844 Talitha2
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#6845 Talya2
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#6846 Tamina2
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#6847 Tamsin2