Tamilla

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tamilla has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1970, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Tamilla, 1987

1 in 721,000

Tamilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamilla: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamilla means

Tamilla is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tamilla is used in Azerbaijani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Tamilla between 1967 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1970; its best national rank was #6,987 in 1970.

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.

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How common is Tamilla?

Tamilla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987: 1 in 721,000; 5 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only: 1 in 348,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 499,770 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tamilla 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 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamillas were born

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

Median birth year: 1970; About 55 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Tamilla 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1970 (7)
Years since peak: 55; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,987; 1970

Spellings of Tamilla

Tamilla is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 35.9% against Tamilla's <0.01%.

Camila35.9%123,854
Camille21.9%75,722
Camilla8.8%30,276
Tamika6.6%22,760
Kamila5.8%20,098
Tamia3.7%12,782
Jamila2.4%8,322
Tamela2.1%7,186

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.

Tamilla around the world

Where Tamilla 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.

France
2004–2024
#4,805
in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tamilla 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: —
Best rank ever: #6,987; 1970
Peak year: 1970; 7 that year
First recorded: 1967
Last recorded: 1987
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tamilla

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

Tamella Tamiria Priella Tamblyn Tamijah Tamicha Tamayah Strella Tamaika Tamathy Tamille Cevilla Tamarin Tamikah Zarella Sorella Tamiqua Tameiko Lunella Tammica Kaiella Tamarya Tammeka Tamaica

Sibling names for Tamilla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Nicolle Janeen Corinna Marlo Lashawn Shonda Jeana Jeanna

For a brother

Judd Douglass Alfonzo Edwardo Shon Brant Scot Darrick

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