Tamela — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tamela

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,187 babies named Tamela between 1947 and 2018, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamela currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 390 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamela performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 3,436 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Tamela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 552 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamela in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tamela 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 7,187 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.