Tamya
Tamya was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,054 among girls’ names; 2,790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Tamya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamya?
#13,054 among girls’ names, 2025
Tamya fell from #3,475 in 2015 to #13,054 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 4.4 per million.
262 babies in 2003, the peak
Tamya peaked in 2003, when 262 girls were given it, #910 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,054 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,069 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,594 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,595 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,410 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,469 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,434 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,213 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,642 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,720 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,475 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,265 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,567 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,706 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,068 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,056 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,768 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 180 | #1,353 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 208 | #1,172 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 221 | #1,076 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 249 | #963 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 262 | #910 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,391 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,365 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,251 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,394 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,021 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,802 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,695 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,323 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,335 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,888 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,481 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,803 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,526 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,155 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamya, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,790 Americans ever recorded as Tamya. The median Tamya alive today is 21 years old; half are between 17 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,168 people named Tamya (2,164 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 340 |
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 Tamya born?
The states with the most babies named Tamya are Florida, Georgia and Alabama, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 233 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 203 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 158 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| North Carolina | 135 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 122 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 118 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 112 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Tennessee | 107 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 102 | not ranked | 2.6× |
Where Tamya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1959 it was given 3.9 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 girls’ 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 Tamya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Tamya?
Tamya is a less common spelling of Tamia: SSA has recorded 2,790 Tamya and 12,782 Tamia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 407,394 babies since 1880, Tamya is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 125 babies (5.6%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Tamya
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 Tamya and names like it
- Compare Tamya and TamiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTamya peaked in 2003.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamya since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Tamya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tamya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.