Tammra — girls' name
583 babies named Tammra in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 1969. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Tammra was born in this single decade.
40 babies were named Tammra in 1969 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tammra
The Social Security Administration has registered 583 babies named Tammra between 1957 and 1998, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tammra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 40 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tammra performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tammra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 39 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Tammra in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tammra 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 583 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.
Tammra at a glance
Last recorded 1998Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tammra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–1957
- Peak year (1969)
- 40
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1998.
583 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1969 with 40 births in a single year.
Tammra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 286 births that decade — 49% of Tammra's all-time total
Tammra decade highlights
- Peak decade 286 births
- Runner-up 153 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Tammra's strongest decade
286 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Tammra by state
Where Tammra concentrates geographically — total births since 1957
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 39 | 6.7% |
| #2 | Ohio | | 11 | 1.9% |
| #3 | Michigan | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Minnesota | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #6 | Texas | | 5 | 0.9% |
39 of 583 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.9% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.0% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.9% of nationwide
- Minnesota 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.7% 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, 1957–1998 (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.