Tillman
Tillman was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,033 among boys’ names; 3,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Tillman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 15 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tillman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tillman?
#4,033 among boys’ names, 2025
Tillman fell from #3,078 in 2015 to #4,033 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 15.8 per million.
75 babies in 1917, the peak
Tillman peaked in 1917, when 75 boys were given it, #705 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,033 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,970 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,682 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,640 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,262 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,319 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,429 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,508 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,282 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,078 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,218 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,446 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,789 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,975 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,937 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,521 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,305 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,187 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,893 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,865 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,474 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,691 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,042 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,846 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,753 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,412 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,318 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,603 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,729 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,440 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,197 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,085 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,236 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,053 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,907 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,778 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,850 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,806 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,981 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,608 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 26 | #1,579 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 31 | #1,418 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #1,492 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,806 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 30 | #1,463 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,636 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,576 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,360 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,452 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,493 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,476 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,319 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,240 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,020 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,345 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,320 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 52 | #996 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,194 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,245 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 44 | #989 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 46 | #995 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,024 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,330 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 43 | #993 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,118 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,093 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 49 | #892 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,092 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,120 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 46 | #940 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,154 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 56 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 52 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 48 | #996 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 51 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 59 | #893 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 57 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 54 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 64 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 72 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 62 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 75 | #705 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 53 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 57 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 44 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,044 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 34 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 13 | #971 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 20 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 20 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 15 | #711 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 18 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 9 | #917 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,082 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 16 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 7 | #998 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 11 | #735 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 8 | #850 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 18 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 11 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 11 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 17 | #493 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 13 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 12 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 17 | #499 | 0.15 |
| 1893 | 12 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 11 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 19 | #408 | 0.19 |
| 1890 | 8 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 10 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 8 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 7 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 12 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 9 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 10 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 9 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 9 | #681 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tillman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tillman has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 143 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tillman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tillman, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 45% of the 3,739 Americans ever recorded as Tillman. The median Tillman alive today is 38 years old; half are between 15 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,536 people named Tillman (45 women and girls, 1,491 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,713 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 134 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 383 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 228 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 203 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 348 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 391 |
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 Tillman born?
The states with the most babies named Tillman are South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 251 | #663 | 4.1× |
| Georgia | 187 | #1,528 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 55 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 41 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tillman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tillman is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.1 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 boys’ 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 Tillman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,389 babies since 1880, Tillman is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 27 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Tillman
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 Tillman and names like it
- Compare Tillman and TilmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTillman peaked in 1917.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tillman since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Tillman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tillman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.