Tatum — #205 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tatum

The Social Security Administration has registered 26,979 babies named Tatum between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tatum currently holds the #205 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,497 babies received it in a single year. Tatum is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11,476 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tatum performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,559 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Tatum shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,157 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Tatum in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tatum 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 26,979 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.