Tatum
#189 for girls in 2025, 1,661 births · #202 for boys in 2025, 1,736 births
Given to girls 68.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,661 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,649since 1966
Tatum 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 | #189 | 1,661 | #202 | 1,736 |
| 2024 | #205 | 1,502 | #195 | 1,841 |
| 2023 | #227 | 1,319 | #233 | 1,504 |
| 2022 | #274 | 1,156 | #318 | 1,058 |
| 2021 | #279 | 1,137 | #385 | 837 |
| 2020 | #343 | 903 | #490 | 598 |
| 2019 | #359 | 882 | #487 | 596 |
| 2018 | #416 | 744 | #533 | 529 |
| 2017 | #443 | 713 | #597 | 457 |
| 2016 | #421 | 775 | #637 | 417 |
| 2015 | #409 | 783 | #585 | 473 |
| 2014 | #391 | 834 | #591 | 465 |
| 2013 | #329 | 986 | #544 | 487 |
| 2012 | #329 | 950 | #599 | 422 |
| 2011 | #346 | 928 | #724 | 314 |
| 2010 | #334 | 965 | #751 | 301 |
| 2009 | #395 | 796 | #1,266 | 139 |
| 2008 | #368 | 885 | #1,294 | 134 |
| 2007 | #336 | 991 | #1,197 | 147 |
| 2006 | #347 | 950 | #1,438 | 108 |
| 2005 | #343 | 915 | #1,546 | 91 |
| 2004 | #384 | 814 | #1,763 | 71 |
| 2003 | #384 | 788 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #392 | 752 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #412 | 696 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #420 | 675 | #2,256 | 43 |
| 1999 | #427 | 647 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #398 | 689 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #547 | 430 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #946 | 203 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #1,007 | 184 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #977 | 189 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #1,059 | 172 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #1,312 | 128 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #1,375 | 117 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #1,557 | 98 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #1,717 | 79 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,498 | 86 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #1,327 | 99 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #1,882 | 59 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #1,886 | 56 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #1,887 | 55 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #1,965 | 53 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,830 | 60 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #1,276 | 100 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #1,482 | 80 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #1,176 | 107 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #1,214 | 100 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #1,373 | 78 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #1,247 | 91 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #1,284 | 83 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 | #3,445 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tatum! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tatum is popular in 1966
No state had 5 or more girls named Tatum in 1966, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tatum
- 16 spots since 2024 (#205 → #189)
- 154 spots since 2020 (#343 → #189)
- 220 spots since 2015 (#409 → #189)
- Biggest jump: 399 spots in 1997 (#946 → #547)
- Biggest drop: 62 spots in 2014 (#329 → #391)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2025 at #189 (1,661 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 968 girls born in 2025 were named Tatum (0.10%)
- 29.9% of all girls named Tatum (8,560) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2022, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,564 |
| 1970s | 564 | #1,176 (1978) | #1,504 |
| 1980s | 723 | #1,276 (1980) | #1,695 |
| 1990s | 2,857 | #398 (1998) | #961 |
| 2000s | 8,262 | #336 (2007) | #378 |
| 2010s | 8,560 | #329 (2013) | #378 |
| 2020s | 7,678 | #189 (2025) | #253 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tatum in 1966
Top girls' names in 1966
More about 1966
girls
1,692,177 girls got a published name in 1966; 1 in 338,435 of them was named Tatum, which outranked 13.9% of the 7,624 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,060 names at #6,564; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.