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Tamblyn

Girls' name

Twin, through Thomas

Tamblyn has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1958, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tamblyn, 1968

1 in 676,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamblyn: meaning, origin, and history

Twin, through Thomas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamblyn means

Tamblyn belongs to the name family reached through Tamblyn → Thomas. Its meaning is “twin”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Middle English personal name Tamlin, a double diminutive of Thomas.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tamblyn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Thomas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Tamblyn between 1958 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1958; its best national rank was #4,851 in 1958.

How common is Tamblyn?

Tamblyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968
1 in 676,000
5 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
468,333 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamblyn 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 1968 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 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamblyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamblyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamblyn was born before 1965 — so the typical Tamblyn is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Tamblyn 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (8)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,851
1958

Spellings of Tamblyn

Tamblyn is not the most common spelling — Taelyn is, with 35.8% against Tamblyn's 0.28%.

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.

Tamblyn around the world

Where Tamblyn 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
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

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

Tamblyn 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
#4,851
1958
Peak year
1958
8 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamblyn

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

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Sibling names for Tamblyn

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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