Tamir
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #13,799 · #1,808 for boys in 2025, 88 births
Given to boys 97.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 113 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,401since 1971
Tamir over time
Rank among boys' names. Tamir has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,808 | 88 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,833 | 88 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,547 | 113 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,665 | 103 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,841 | 84 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,499 | 113 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2018 | — | #1,744 | 88 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,897 | 76 | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,066 | 68 |
| 2015 | — | #2,189 | 62 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,885 | 40 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,668 | 44 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,748 | 43 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,847 | 42 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,291 | 57 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,765 | 43 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,348 | 53 | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | — | #2,024 | 59 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | — | #1,943 | 57 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #2,249 | 45 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #1,924 | 54 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,655 | 64 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,527 | 71 |
| 1997 | — | #2,260 | 37 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,679 | 28 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,102 | 39 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,326 | 20 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,347 | 32 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,128 | 36 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,544 | 27 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,432 | 28 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,942 | 17 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,292 | 22 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,695 | 34 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,284 | 22 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,465 | 19 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,068 | 23 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,361 | 19 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,113 | 22 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tamir! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Tamir is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#804 · 1 in 4,990
- Missouri#856 · 1 in 5,709
- Florida#1,072 · 1 in 8,433
- Ohio#1,233 · 1 in 10,843
- New York#1,591 · 1 in 14,855
Best ever in a state: #306 in Pennsylvania, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #804 | 5 | 1 in 4,990 |
| Missouri | #856 | 5 | 1 in 5,709 |
| Florida | #1,072 | 11 | 1 in 8,433 |
| Ohio | #1,233 | 5 | 1 in 10,843 |
| New York | #1,591 | 6 | 1 in 14,855 |
| Texas | #2,004 | 7 | 1 in 24,446 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tamir
- 25 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #1,808)
- 309 spots since 2020 (#1,499 → #1,808)
- 381 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #1,808)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2020 at #1,499 (113 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,138 boys born in 2023 were named Tamir (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,410 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,499 in 2020, was only 1 in 15,275 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.5% of all boys named Tamir (589) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 115 | #2,068 (1978) | #3,096 |
| 1980s | 200 | #1,695 (1981) | #2,713 |
| 1990s | 382 | #1,527 (1998) | #2,300 |
| 2000s | 530 | #1,906 (2003) | #2,238 |
| 2010s | 585 | #1,744 (2018) | #2,367 |
| 2020s | 589 | #1,499 (2020) | #1,699 |
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.
Tamir in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 20,827 of them was named Tamir, which outranked 86.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,823Unknown85
- #1,823Usman85
- #1,823Yunus85
- #1,841Tamir84
- #1,841Adolfo84
- #1,841Charley84
- #1,841Eastyn84
- #1,853Antwan83
- #1,853Arius83
- #1,853Brendon83
Tied with 11 names at #1,841; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.