Girls' name · since 1955
Tamma
Tamma has 215 recorded births since 1955 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1967 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,097 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 215
- born since 1955
- 1960s
- peak decade
Tamma is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 215 have been recorded since 1955.
Tamma has 215 recorded births among girls since 1955, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1955 to 1981.
- #19,097 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 215 born since 1955
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tamma ranks #19,097 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 215 born since 1955, peaking in the 1960s.
- #19,097 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 215
- born since 1955
- 1960s
- peak decade
Tamma's 215 recorded births place it above 73.59% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tamma's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Tamma's full recorded timeline at 1965, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1981, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1967 peak of 17 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Tamma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1955–1981
- Peak year (1967)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Tamma by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (135 births, 63% of the file).
1960s was Tamma's strongest decade.
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Tamma births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 48
1950s
48 births
- 1960s
1960s
135 births
- 1970s 27
1970s
27 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 135 births (63% of all-time use).
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- Tamma's decade-level peak was the 1960s (135 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tamma: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1967)
Similar record span (~26 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1955–1981 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tamma draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.