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.
Where Tam is popular in 1959
No state had 5 or more boys named Tam in 1959, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1959
Top girls' names in 1959
More about 1959
girls
2,023,462 girls got a published name in 1959; 1 in 54,688 of them was named Tam, which outranked 74.7% of the 7,202 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,794Sherrell38
- #1,794Stephaine38
- #1,794Wendie38
- #1,820Tam37
- #1,820Alexandria37
- #1,820Arla37
- #1,820Ashley37
- #1,852Annice36
- #1,852Ardis36
- #1,852Bobette36
Tied with 31 names at #1,820; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.