Thalia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning “flourish, to be verdant.” In 2024 it was given to 444 girls in the United States.
Thalia at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Greek
Meaning
“flourish, to be verdant”
Pronunciation
/θəˈlaɪ.ə/
About the name Thalia
Thalia belongs to the Greek tradition. Its meaning — “flourish, to be verdant” — is the sense carried by its Greek roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Thalia first appears in Social Security records in 1885. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #363 in 1993, and in 2024 444 babies received the name — 15,808 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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