Tatem
Tatem is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,755 among girls’ names and #5,581 among boys’, #9,620 among all names counting both); 669 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tatem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tatem?
#14,755 among girls’ names, 2025
Tatem fell from #11,744 in 2015 to #14,755 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
42 babies in 2006, the peak
Tatem peaked in 2006, when 42 babies were given it (30 girls, #4,795 among girls’ names). The 23 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,755 | 17 | #5,581 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,047 | 6 | #12,186 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,538 | 19 | #5,222 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,506 | 14 | #6,435 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,481 | 9 | #8,749 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,274 | 7 | #10,470 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,340 | 7 | #10,680 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,484 | 12 | #7,081 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,738 | 8 | #9,586 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,777 | 8 | #9,568 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,744 | 14 | #6,276 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,422 | 15 | #5,964 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,106 | 22 | #4,440 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,115 | 19 | #5,016 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,822 | 16 | #5,644 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,730 | 15 | #5,997 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,646 | 13 | #6,763 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,714 | 12 | #7,131 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,780 | 19 | #4,963 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,795 | 12 | #6,856 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,503 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,943 | 10 | #7,456 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,954 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,785 | 8 | #8,348 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,282 | 8 | #8,228 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,451 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,161 | 9 | #7,043 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,034 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,918 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tatem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 669 Americans recorded as Tatem, 54% are girls and 46% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tatem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tatem, and how old are they?
An estimated 663 Americans named Tatem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 608 people named Tatem (342 women and girls, 266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 48,458 babies since 1880, Tatem is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 3,907 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Tatem
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 Tatem and names like it
- Compare Tatem and TatumBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTatem peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tatem since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Tatem.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tatem alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.