Tama
Tama is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195997 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1919
- 1,433people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,433 girls have been named Tama in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 97 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 97 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 38%.
By decade
In 1959, its biggest year
Tama was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Tama
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beckypeak 1959
- Teripeak 1960
- Merripeak 1963
- Terripeak 1959
- Robinpeak 1961
- Taripeak 1959
- Teresapeak 1961
- Robbinpeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.