Tamella
Tamella was last recorded in 1985, when 5 babies were given it; 94 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,287, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1958, the peak
Tamella peaked in 1958, when 9 girls were given it, #4,476 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #12,287 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,979 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,955 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,478 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,414 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,059 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,482 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,462 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,179 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,368 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 8 | #5,223 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,505 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,485 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,986 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,476 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamella, and how old are they?
An estimated 85 Americans named Tamella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 133 people named Tamella (131 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Tamella?
Tamella is a less common spelling of Tamela: SSA has recorded 94 Tamella and 7,186 Tamela since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,532 babies since 1880, Tamella is the seventh most given (<1% 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 Tamella
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 Tamella and names like it
- Compare Tamella and TamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTamella peaked in 1958.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Tamella.
- Names starting with TMost given first.