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Tamaki

Girls' name

From Japanese 玉城; literal meaning unconfirmed

Tamaki has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tamaki, 2012

1 in 732,000

Tamaki over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamaki: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese 玉城; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Tamaki means

Tamaki is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Japanese 玉城 (Tamaki), 玉木 (Tamaki) or たまき (Tamaki).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Tamaki (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tamaki is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Tamaki comes through Japanese 玉城.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Tamaki between 1974 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2008; its best national rank was #9,121 in 1976.

How common is Tamaki?

Tamaki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamaki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamaki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamaki was born before 1978 — so the typical Tamaki is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
62.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 62.9% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Tamaki rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (8)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,121
1976

Spellings of Tamaki

Tamaki is not the most common spelling — Tamara is, with 45.7% against Tamaki's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Tamaki around the world

Where Tamaki ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tamaki by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,121
1976
Peak year
2008
8 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamaki

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tamaki

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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