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Tamatha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tamatha has been given to 2,812 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1968, with 381 recorded.

Babies named Tamatha, 1996

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamatha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamatha means

Tamatha is a given name.

The naming story behind Tamatha

Wikidata records Tamatha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116767665, 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, 2,812 girls were recorded with the name Tamatha between 1960 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 381 in 1968; its best national rank was #499 in 1968.

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 Tamatha?

Tamatha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,209 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamatha 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 1996 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 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamatha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamathas were born

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

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,812
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (1,289).

Is Tamatha 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 1968 (381)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#499
1968

Spellings of Tamatha

Tamatha is not the most common spelling — Samantha is, with 70.7% against Tamatha's 0.34%.

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 Tamatha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamatha was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 68,326 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 25,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 50,000

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. Tamatha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tamatha around the world

Where Tamatha 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
    1969–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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

Tamatha 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
#499
1968
Peak year
1968
381 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
2,812
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamatha

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

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Names with a curve like Tamatha

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

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Sibling names for Tamatha

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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