Tamula
Tamula was last recorded in 1981, when 8 babies were given it; 196 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamula?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,059, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1967, the peak
Tamula peaked in 1967, when 14 girls were given it, #3,632 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 8 | #8,059 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,240 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,339 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,036 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,919 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,202 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,012 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,885 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,484 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,184 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 11 | #4,694 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,759 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,632 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,225 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,924 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,856 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,241 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,825 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,254 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,666 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,106 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,928 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamula, and how old are they?
An estimated 177 Americans named Tamula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 53 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 194 people named Tamula (194 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,532 babies since 1880, Tamula is the fifth most given (1.7% of them).
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 Tamula
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 Tamula and names like it
- Compare Tamula and TamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTamula peaked in 1967.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Tamula.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamula alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.