Tam — #11040 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tam

The Social Security Administration has registered 984 babies named Tam between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tam currently holds the #11040 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Tam is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 897 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tam performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 335 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Tam shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 198 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Tam in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tam 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 984 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.