Tam
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 52.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1982 · 46 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 987since 1924
Tam over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | — | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #3,406 | 20 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #2,626 | 28 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #2,049 | 36 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | #1,896 | 33 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #1,837 | 33 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #1,724 | 35 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | #1,507 | 41 |
| 1983 | #3,687 | 21 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | #1,395 | 46 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | #1,811 | 31 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
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| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,211 | 29 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,414 | 25 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #1,820 | 37 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,872 | 34 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #2,563 | 20 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 | — | |
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tam! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tam
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
- 4,974 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #12,008)
- 4,517 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1982 at #1,395 (46 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,445 boys born in 1982 were named Tam (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.7% of all boys named Tam (333) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #3,959 (1929) | #4,153 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 7 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,010 |
| 1950s | 30 | #2,375 (1957) | #2,679 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,665 (1960) | #3,865 |
| 1970s | 66 | #2,245 (1976) | #3,305 |
| 1980s | 333 | #1,395 (1982) | #1,866 |
| 1990s | 240 | #2,049 (1990) | #3,152 |
| 2000s | 169 | #4,302 (2001) | #4,911 |
| 2010s | 94 | #6,703 (2018) | #8,042 |
| 2020s | 27 | #7,034 (2020) | #10,532 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tam in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 108,444 of them was named Tam, which outranked 65.3% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,848Vita18
- #4,848Whittany18
- #4,848Yazmine18
- #5,049Tam17
- #5,049Adriann17
- #5,049Aigner17
- #5,049Alanah17
- #5,286Abena16
- #5,286Adair16
- #5,286Adasha16
Tied with 236 names at #5,049; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 57,169 of them was named Tam, which outranked 78.0% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,993Sampson36
- #1,993Ubaldo36
- #1,993Von36
- #2,027Tam35
- #2,027Adams35
- #2,027Amador35
- #2,027Anand35
- #2,068Aram34
- #2,068Bentley34
- #2,068Berry34
Tied with 40 names at #2,027; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.