girls:
1.4k births since 1919
#4302 (25th percentile)
boys:
13 births since 2012
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1919
#6299 (19th percentile)
The name Tama is the #6,299 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,446 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 18.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,302 (24.7% percentile) for all time with 1,433 births since 1919. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2012.
Tama first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 2012 for boys). Birth data for Tama is available in 65 out of the 100 years between 1919 and 2018 (63 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tama has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Tama were girls. Interestingly, until around 2012, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1919 to 2011), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2012 to 2018).
For girls, Tama reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #675) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 47 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
For boys, Tama reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #911) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tama".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tama. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.1% confident that Tama is pronounced as TAH-muh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TUH-muh, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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