Tacoma — boys' name

What the Data Says About Tacoma

The Social Security Administration has registered 204 babies named Tacoma between 1979 and 2022, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tacoma currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Tacoma is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 42 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tacoma performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 131 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tacoma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tacoma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 204 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.