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Tamila

Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Tamila has been given to 572 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 30 recorded.

Babies named Tamila, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamila: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamila means

Tamila is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tamila is used in Ukrainian and Russian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tɐ.ˈmʲi.ɫɐ/ and /tɐ.ˈmʲi.ɫə/ for Tamila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 572 girls were recorded with the name Tamila between 1957 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1968; its best national rank was #2,240 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 Tamila?

Tamila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamila 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamila was born before 1971 — so the typical Tamila is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
572
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Choose a decade

1960s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (210).

Is Tamila 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 1968 (30)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,240
1968

Spellings of Tamila

Tamila is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 39.5% against Tamila's 0.04%.

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 Tamila is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,357,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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

Tamila around the world

Where Tamila 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
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    2004–2025
    #2,800
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1956–1988
    #657
    in 1988

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.

Tamila 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
#2,240
1968
Peak year
1968
30 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
572
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamila

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

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Sibling names for Tamila

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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