Tama
Tama was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 1,446 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Tama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 55 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tama?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,751, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
97 babies in 1959, the peak
Tama peaked in 1959, when 97 girls were given it, #1,085 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #19,751 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,810 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,137 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,504 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,511 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,599 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,175 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,824 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,680 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,654 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 8 | #8,676 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,432 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,634 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,730 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,233 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,169 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,338 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,870 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,388 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,916 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,408 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,391 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,568 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,093 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,330 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,665 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,591 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,638 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,347 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,906 | 24.4 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,878 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,733 | 25.4 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,573 | 28.9 |
| 1964 | 68 | #1,369 | 35.9 |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,360 | 34.8 |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,373 | 33.6 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,341 | 34.7 |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,383 | 31.7 |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,085 | 47.9 |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,110 | 45.2 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,505 | 24.9 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,713 | 19.4 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,333 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,868 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,063 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,012 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,263 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,399 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,059 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,956 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,208 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,306 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,107 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,019 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,463 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,293 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,297 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,208 | 5.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,786 | 5.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,200 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,383 | 5.8 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,330 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,470 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tama has been given almost only to girls: 13 boys in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tama, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,446 Americans ever recorded as Tama. The median Tama alive today is 63 years old; half are between 55 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,588 people named Tama (1,491 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Tama rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 659 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 385 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 113 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 407,394 babies since 1880, Tama is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 125 babies recorded by SSA was a Tama (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tama
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tama and names like it
- Compare Tama and TammyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTama peaked in 1959.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tama since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Tama.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tama alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.