Tamala
Tamala was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 2,873 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Tamala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 51 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamala?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,884, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
176 babies in 1971, the peak
Tamala peaked in 1971, when 176 girls were given it, #801 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,884 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,024 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,019 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,721 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,476 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,015 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,159 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 8 | #10,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,514 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,468 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,256 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,707 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,836 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,715 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,849 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,054 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,149 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,047 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,891 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,680 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,261 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 107 | #1,098 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 141 | #903 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 106 | #1,087 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 131 | #942 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 176 | #801 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 124 | #1,011 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 121 | #984 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 150 | #833 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 145 | #842 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 123 | #912 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 98 | #1,062 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 117 | #988 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 134 | #911 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,056 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 104 | #1,055 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 86 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 71 | #1,263 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,770 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,014 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamala, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,873 Americans ever recorded as Tamala. The median Tamala alive today is 56 years old; half are between 51 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 2,641 people named Tamala (2,629 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,685 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 666 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,590 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 313 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36 |
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).
Where are babies named Tamala born?
The states with the most babies named Tamala are Ohio, Texas and California, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 205 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 168 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 137 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 123 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 103 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 88 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 76 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 73 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 69 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Tamala is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamala is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1950 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tamala with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,532 babies since 1880, Tamala is the second most given (25% of them).
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 Tamala
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 Tamala and names like it
- Compare Tamala and TamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamala peaked in 1971.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamala since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Tamala.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamala alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.