Tatem — #11533 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tatem

The Social Security Administration has registered 353 babies named Tatem between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tatem currently holds the #11533 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Tatem is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 293 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tatem performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tatem shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tatem in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tatem 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 353 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.