Tallulah ranks at #575 with 214 entries, registered female. The name has Choctaw and Cherokee origins (variously translated as "leaping water" or referencing the Tallulah Falls and Tallulah River in northeast Georgia), and it carries a glamour register that makes it land on the kind of pet whose owners post elaborate Halloween costumes.
The glamour-name register
Tallulah sits in the same naming pocket as Cleopatra, Greta, and Marlene — names borrowed from Old Hollywood and Jazz Age glamour, with three or four syllables and a deliberate theatrical flourish. The cohort is small but consistent: owners reaching for these names want a pet who reads as a small dignified celebrity.
The Tallulah Bankhead lineage
The actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) is the dominant cultural anchor for the name in American memory, and her famous personality — flamboyant, sharp-tongued, theatrical — colors how the name lands on a dog. Owners picking Tallulah for a small dramatic poodle or a vocal cat are often quietly invoking that lineage. Demi Moore and Bruce Willis named their daughter Tallulah in 1994, which kept the name visible across a younger generation.
Breed lean
The name lands disproportionately on small fluffy breeds with theatrical presence — Poodles, Pomeranians, Maltese, Bichons, and the occasional dramatic cat. The four-syllable shape (ta-LOO-lah) does not recall well across a yard, so most Tallulahs get day-to-day called Tally or Lulu.