Tamer — boys' name
793 babies named Tamer in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Tamer was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Tamer in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tamer
The Social Security Administration has registered 793 babies named Tamer between 1972 and 2023, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tamer currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamer performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tamer shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamer in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tamer 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 793 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.
Tamer at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tamer popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1972
- Peak year (2004)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
793 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 31 births in a single year.
Tamer popularity over time — girls
33 total births recorded since 1907 (Tamer as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tamer accounts for 4% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tamer by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 214 births that decade — 27% of Tamer's all-time total
Tamer decade highlights
- Peak decade 214 births
- Runner-up 203 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tamer's strongest decade
214 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Tamer by state
Where Tamer concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 50 | 6.3% |
| #2 | California | | 45 | 5.7% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 17 | 2.1% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.6% |
50 of 793 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.3% of nationwide
- California 5.7% of nationwide
- New Jersey 2.1% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.