Tamir
Tamir was given to 88 boys in 2025, #1,821 among boys’ names; 2,460 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,410 Americans named Tamir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamir?
#1,821 among boys’ names, 2025
Tamir rose from #2,208 in 2015 to #1,821 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.3 to 51.5 per million.
113 babies in 2020, the peak
Tamir peaked in 2020, when 113 boys were given it, #1,502 among boys’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #1,821 | 51.5 |
| 2024 | 88 | #1,851 | 51.1 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,556 | 66.1 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,676 | 59.0 |
| 2021 | 84 | #1,850 | 48.0 |
| 2020 | 113 | #1,502 | 65.5 |
| 2019 | 79 | #1,896 | 44.0 |
| 2018 | 88 | #1,759 | 48.5 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,914 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,082 | 35.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,208 | 32.3 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,923 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,705 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,995 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,788 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,673 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,887 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,320 | 27.9 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,801 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,371 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,106 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,045 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,928 | 30.9 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,963 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,267 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,937 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,666 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 71 | #1,532 | 37.1 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,301 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,735 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,129 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,445 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,386 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,161 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,591 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,476 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,879 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,348 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,054 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,092 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,922 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,354 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,602 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,811 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,722 | 19.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,358 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,556 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,123 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,449 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,165 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,266 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,104 | 7.6 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,385 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,568 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,460 Americans recorded as Tamir, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 88 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tamir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamir, and how old are they?
2,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,460 Americans ever recorded as Tamir. The median Tamir alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,830 people named Tamir (138 women and girls, 1,692 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 369 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
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 Tamir born?
The states with the most babies named Tamir are Florida, New York and Georgia, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 14 | #1,003 | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,047 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 9 | #979 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,457 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,445 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,168 | 0.3× |
Where Tamir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamir is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 4.3 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 boys’ 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 Tamir 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,774 babies since 1880, Tamir is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 123 babies (72%), again the most given.
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 Tamir
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 Tamir and names like it
- Compare Tamir and TamerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTamir peaked in 2020.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamir since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Tamir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tamir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.