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Tamia

#2,954 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Tamia has been given to 12,782 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #2,954 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 833 recorded.

Babies named Tamia, 2025

1 in 58,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamia: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Tamia means

Tamia is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A 20th-century coinage popularized by the Canadian singer Tamia Hill.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tamia is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Tamia is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,782 girls were recorded with the name Tamia between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 833 in 2004; its best national rank was #358 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,696 in 2020 to #2,954 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,074 in 2015 to #2,954 in 2025.

How common is Tamia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,954
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamia 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 2025 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 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamia was born before 2004 — so the typical Tamia is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,772
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (6,203).

Is Tamia 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
+162
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,258
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,880
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 2004 (833)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#358
2001

Spellings of Tamia

Tamia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 17.2% against Tamia's 0.39%.

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 Tamia is used

Across 2016–2025, Tamia was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 12,125 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,167
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,545
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 4,762
  4. 4Georgia1 in 5,556
  5. 5Illinois1 in 6,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 7,143
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 7,143
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 7,692

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.

Tamia around the world

Where Tamia 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2022
    #6,967
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1997–2021
    #2,202
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1964–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tamia

People whose public names include Tamia, 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.

Tamia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tamia. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tamya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tamia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,954
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,258
Best rank ever
#358
2001
Peak year
2004
833 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,782
Count in 2025
57

Names similar to Tamia

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

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Names with a curve like Tamia

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

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Sibling names for Tamia

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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