Tamzin

#17,012 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Tamzin has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #17,012 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Tamzin, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tamzin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Tamzin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,012
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamzin 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamzin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamzins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamzin was born before 2017 — so the typical Tamzin is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
81.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
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Choose a decade

2010s — 81.2% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Tamzin 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
+256
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,664
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2017 (14)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,250
2017

Spellings of Tamzin

Tamzin is not the most common spelling — Tami is, with 35.1% against Tamzin's 0.08%.

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.

Tamzin around the world

Where Tamzin 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2013
    #449
    in 2013
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2011
    #311
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2001–2015
    #896
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tamzin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,012
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 256
Best rank ever
#8,250
2017
Peak year
2017
14 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Tamzin

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

Sibling names for Tamzin

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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