Tamatha
Tamatha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 499th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1968381 births
- Best rank
- #499in 1968
- Since 1960
- 2,811people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,811 girls have been named Tamatha in the United States since 1960, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 381 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 381 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1970s alone account for 46%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1968, its biggest year
Tamatha was the 499th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Tamatha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gidgetpeak 1966
- Marniepeak 1969
- Keciapeak 1965
- Marnipeak 1969
- Mechellepeak 1968
- Dionnepeak 1970
- Tonjapeak 1967
- Corettapeak 1968
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.