Tamila — girls' name
572 babies named Tamila in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Tamila was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Tamila in 1968 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tamila
The Social Security Administration has registered 572 babies named Tamila between 1957 and 2023, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamila currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamila performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 210 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Tamila shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamila in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tamila 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 572 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.
Tamila at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tamila popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1957
- Peak year (1968)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 67 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
572 total births across 67 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1968 with 30 births in a single year.
Tamila by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 210 births that decade — 37% of Tamila's all-time total
Tamila decade highlights
- Peak decade 210 births
- Runner-up 167 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Tamila's strongest decade
210 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Tamila by state
Where Tamila concentrates geographically — total births since 1957
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 6 | 1.0% |
6 of 572 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 1.0% of nationwide
- Texas 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.0% 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, 1957–2023 (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.