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Tamala

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tamala has been given to 2,873 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1971, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Tamala, 2005

1 in 769,000

Tamala 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamala: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamala means

Tamala is a given name.

The naming story behind Tamala

Wikidata records Tamala as a given name. The entity identifier is Q58431688, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,873 girls were recorded with the name Tamala between 1950 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 176 in 1971; its best national rank was #801 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tamala?

Tamala had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamala 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamala was born before 1970 — so the typical Tamala is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,873
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (1,189).

Is Tamala 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (176)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#801
1971

Spellings of Tamala

Tamala is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 49.9% against Tamala's 0.24%.

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.

Where Tamala is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamala was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 86,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tamala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tamala around the world

Where Tamala 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
    1970–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Notable people named Tamala

People whose public names include Tamala, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tamala 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
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Best rank ever
#801
1971
Peak year
1971
176 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
2,873
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamala

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

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Names with a curve like Tamala

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tamala, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TanjaKimberelyDetraMachelleMechelleDenitaTowandaKeciaYolondaKelleBethannKimberlie

Sibling names for Tamala

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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