girls:
7.2k births since 1947
#1923 (66th percentile)
overall:
7.2k births since 1947
#3184 (59th percentile)
The name Tamela is the #3,184 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,187 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 58.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,923 (66.4% percentile) for all time with 7,187 births since 1947.
Tamela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (first recorded for girls in 1947). Birth data for Tamela is available in 65 out of the 72 years between 1947 and 2018. 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.
For girls, Tamela reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 41.4% percentile (ranked #450) with 188 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 200 births per million (ranked 40.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tamela".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tamela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.0% confident that Tamela is pronounced as tuh-MEH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TA-muh-luh, at 29.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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