Tala has multiple convergent origins. In Lakota (Native American) it means "wolf." In Tagalog (Filipino) it means "star." Both meanings give the name strong feminine power.
Tala is rising in the U.S. The Filipino-American actress Tala Ashe (DC's Legends of Tomorrow) is a contemporary bearer.
Tala does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tala reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.