Updated June 9, 2019

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Claw

Girl name variations

Talon

Talon

- 19% this year
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Taelon

Taelon

0 % this year
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Taelyn

Taelyn

- 27% this year
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Talen

Talen

- 16% this year
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Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Irish (of Norman origin), and French : from a Germanic personal name derived from tal ‘destroy’, either as a short form of a compound name with this first element (compare Talbot) or as an independent byname.
  • English and Irish (of Norman origin), and French : metonymic nickname for a swift runner or for someone with a deformed heel, from Old French talon ‘heel’ (a diminutive of tal, Latin talus).
  • Spanish (Tallón) : either a Spanish variant of Catalan Talló (see Tallo) or a habitational name from any of the places in A Coruña, Ourense, and Pontevedra provinces called Tallón.
  • A native of the Champagne region of France, Jean Talon was intendant for New France in 1665–68, and again in 1669–72.