Tala
Arabic in origin, Tala means "star". It stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met one, and the few who carry it are all women and girls.
Tala Pronunciation
Tala is pronounced TAH-lah (/ˈtala/).
What Tala means
Where Tala comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tala reaches Polish ears from Arabic usage, where it is carried as a girl's name meaning star. The origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin roots that shaped most of the calendar, which is why you will not find a fixed name-day for it at the urząd. Its meaning is direct. Star, and nothing more decorative than that.
The name travels widely. It appears among Arabic speakers, and versions of the sound turn up in Persian and in Indigenous American naming, though those are separate roots rather than one shared word. In Polish, Tala has no diminutive tradition and no cross-gender pair. It stays short.
Two syllables, open vowels, easy for a Polish class register to hold beside Lena and Maja.
A child named Tala carries a word that points upward. The meaning stays legible without translation, which is rare for a borrowed name. Parents choosing it in Poland accept a name with no Saint's day and no Slavic cousin, only the plain sense underneath: gwiazda, a star.
When Tala celebrates name day
Tala appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Tala
1 in 536758 women in Poland is named Tala. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5973 among female names.
Tala's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1842 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Tala is most popular
Tala is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Tala as a middle name
Tala is a first name for 42 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5301st, between Taissa (3) and Tallulah (3).
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#5299 Tahmina3
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#5300 Taissa3
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#5301 Tala3
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#5302 Tallulah3
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#5303 Tatyana3