Tram — girls' name
455 babies named Tram in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Tram was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Tram in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tram
The Social Security Administration has registered 455 babies named Tram between 1971 and 2011, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tram currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tram performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 170 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tram shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 88 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tram in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tram 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 455 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.
Tram at a glance
Last recorded 2011Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tram popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2011–1971
- Peak year (1981)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2011.
455 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 30 births in a single year.
Tram by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 170 births that decade — 37% of Tram's all-time total
Tram decade highlights
- Peak decade 170 births
- Runner-up 158 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Tram's strongest decade
170 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Tram by state
Where Tram concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 88 | 19.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 22 | 4.8% |
88 of 455 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 19.3% of nationwide
- Texas 4.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 19.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2011 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.