Meaning & Origin
A surname from Old French.
Talmadge is a boy's and girl's baby name of Old French origin, from the Norman French surname meaning 'one who cuts' or 'cutter,' possibly from tailler (to cut). As a given name it has been used primarily in the American South, with the dignity of an old Southern surname elevated to a first name.
Old Southern and dignified, Talmadge is the kind of name that belongs on a courthouse building or a family headstone — substantial, deliberate, and completely its own.