Talia is a feminine given name. Alternative spellings include: Taliah, Taaliah, Talya, Tahlia, Tahliah, Taliya, Taiyla, Taliea, Taylia, or Talie. Talia (Aramaic: ‎טַלְיָא or טַלְיָה ''Ṭalyāʾ'' "Youth (f.)") is a feminine given name of

Aramaic Aramaic (; ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written a ...

origin, if it can be distinguished from

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

Thalia at all. A folk etymology connects it to

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

טל+יה for "dew of God".

People with the given name

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Talia Balsam Talia Balsam (born 1959) is an American television and film actress. Early life Talia Balsam was born in New York City in 1959, to actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten. Her ancestry is Russian Jewish (father) and Italian, Dutch, and Engl ...

, actress * Talia Castellano, internet celebrity and honorary covergirl * Talia Chiarelli, Canadian gymnast *

Tylan Grant Tylan Grant (born October 9, 2001) is an English actor, known for playing Phoenix Hathaway in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. For his role as Phoenix/Brooke, Grant was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2019 British Soap Awards, as w ...

, actor who formerly went by the name of Talia *

Talia Madison Jamie Lynn Szantyr (born June 2, 1981) is an American color commentator and retired professional wrestler best known for her time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and the NWA under the ring name Velvet Sky. She is a former two-time ...

, the ring name of female wrestler Jamie Szantyr, more commonly known as Velvet Sky *

Tahlia McGrath Tahlia May McGrath (born 10 November 1995) is an Australian international cricketer who is the vice-captain of the Australia women's national cricket team. She made her Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) debut South Africa women's cri ...

, Australian cricketer *

Talia Shire Talia Rose Shire (née Coppola; born April 25, 1946) is an American actress and member of the Coppola family. She is best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather (film series), ''The Godfather'' trilogy and Adrian Pennino, Adrian ...

, actress *

FKA Twigs Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs (stylized as FKA twigs), is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and dancer. She was a backup dancer for numerous musicians, and made her musica ...

, a musician whose real name is Tahliah Barnett

Fictional characters

* Queen Talia, in the video game ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' * Talia, the name of the dormant princess in an early version of the ''Sleeping Beauty'' legend *

Talia al Ghul Talia al Ghul (; , ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Batman. The character was created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Bob Brown (comics), Bob Brown, and first app ...

, from DC Comics *

Talia Gladys This is a list of fictional characters featured in the Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries. These characters appear in the ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' anime television series, the sequ ...

, in ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' * Talia Parra, the titular character of the teen sitcom '' Talia in the Kitchen'' * Talia Patapoutian, a Season 4 contestant in ''

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman ''Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman'' (sometimes shortened as ''Fetch!'') is an American live-action/animated television series that aired on PBS Kids Go! and is largely targeted toward children ages 6–10. It is a reality competition hosted by Ruff Ru ...

'' *

Talia Sahid Talia Sahid is a fictional character from ABC's daytime drama ''One Life to Live''. She is portrayed by BethAnn Bonner. Casting Starting on June 8, 2006, Bonner was a participant in the SOAPnet reality series '' I Wanna Be a Soap Star 3'', i ...

, on the American soap opera ''One Life to Live'' * Talia Winters, on the television series ''Babylon 5'' * Talia Wagner, daughter of Nightcrawler and The Scarlet Witch in an alternate universe of X-Men * Lady Tahlia, in the children's book

Curious George (book) ''Curious George'' is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey, and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. The first book in the ''Curious George'' series, it tells the story of a monkey named George, who was taken ...

* Talia, a main character in ''

LoliRock ''LoliRock'' is a French animated television series produced by Marathon Media and Zodiak Kids with the participation of France Télévisions and The Walt Disney Company France. It was created by Jean Louis-Vandestoc along with David Michel an ...

'' * "Talia" (also known as Natalia), the fiancé of Mischa Bachinski from

Ride the Cyclone ''Ride the Cyclone'' is a 2008 musical with music, lyrics and book by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. It is the second installment in Richmond's "Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy", a collection of three theatrical works, one not yet written, that t ...

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