Tal
From Hebrew, where it means "dew". In Poland it stays genuinely unisex: of the roughly 640 people who carry it, women and men split almost evenly, so nobody reads it as clearly one or the other.
Tal Pronunciation
Tal is pronounced TAHL (/tal/).
What Tal means
Where Tal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tal comes from Hebrew, where the word טל means dew. In Israel it belongs to boys and girls alike, a single syllable that carries no diminutive and takes no variant form. The short meaning is plain: dew. That is the water gathering overnight on grass, gone by mid-morning, which Hebrew poetry reads as a sign of blessing and renewal.
Dew is not a grand thing to be named after, and that suits it. The name asks for nothing. On a Polish class register it would sit short against the Katarzynas and Krzysztofs, three letters read off without a stumble.
Because Tal has no diminutive, a child keeps the same form at six and at sixty. The word behind it still means dew.
How many people are named Tal
1 in 60471 men in Poland is named Tal. 639 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1178 among male names.
Tal's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Tal as a middle name
Tal is a first name for 639 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1869th, between Solveig (16) and Terese (16).
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#1867 Shrikant16
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#1868 Solveig16
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#1869 Tal16
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#1870 Terese16
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#1871 Tsegaye16