Tamatha

Where Tamatha comes from

Tamatha hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #5,696 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Peak, #496
    381 babies named Tamatha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #760.
  4. 1997
    Tamatha Paul born
    New Zealand activist and politician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tamatha Paul · New Zealand activist and politician, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.