Tamia
Tamia was given to 57 girls in 2025, #2,954 among girls’ names; 12,782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,600 Americans named Tamia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamia is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
A 20th-century coinage popularized by the Canadian singer Tamia Hill.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamia?
#2,954 among girls’ names, 2025
Tamia fell from #1,074 in 2015 to #2,954 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.04 per 1,000.
833 babies in 2004, the peak
Tamia peaked in 2004, when 833 girls were given it, #375 among girls’ names. The 57 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,954 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,116 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,441 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,941 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,942 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,696 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,501 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 149 | #1,481 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 214 | #1,158 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 233 | #1,105 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 246 | #1,074 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 271 | #988 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 267 | #952 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 276 | #931 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 292 | #895 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 356 | #773 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 399 | #729 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 562 | #550 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 592 | #527 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 512 | #572 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 581 | #513 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 833 | #375 | 0.45 |
| 2003 | 654 | #458 | 0.36 |
| 2002 | 578 | #486 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 828 | #358 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 664 | #424 | 0.37 |
| 1999 | 705 | #397 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 742 | #380 | 0.42 |
| 1997 | 579 | #440 | 0.33 |
| 1996 | 483 | #498 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,042 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,432 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,035 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,131 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,282 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,704 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,391 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,556 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,539 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,336 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,352 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,636 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,023 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,978 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,425 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,154 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,992 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,492 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,740 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,669 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,101 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,364 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,160 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,963 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,630 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,171 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,904 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,676 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamia, and how old are they?
12,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,782 Americans ever recorded as Tamia. The median Tamia alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 10,222 people named Tamia (10,191 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 46 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 392 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,020 |
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 Tamia born?
The states with the most babies named Tamia are Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,867 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,515 | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,660 | 1.5× |
Where Tamia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamia is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1947 it was given 2.5 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 Tamia 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 441,462 babies since 1880, Tamia is the fifth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 131 babies (44%), the most given that year.
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 Tamia
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 Tamia and names like it
- Compare Tamia and TammyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTamia peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamia since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Tamia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Tamia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tamia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.