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Tata

Girls' name

Radiant, glad, cheerful, tender

Tata has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1983, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Tata, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tata: meaning, origin, and history

Radiant, glad, cheerful, tender

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tata means

Tata means “radiant, glad, cheerful, tender”, associated with taitaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Tata is used in Cebuano and Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Tata is pronounced /ˈtɑː.tɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 143 girls were recorded with the name Tata between 1971 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1983; its best national rank was #6,176 in 1983.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tata?

Tata had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tata 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tatas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tata was born before 1982 — so the typical Tata is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
143
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Tata 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (11)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,176
1983

Spellings of Tata

Tata is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 12.0% against Tata's <0.01%.

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.

Tata around the world

Where Tata 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
    1962–2023
    #6,636
    in 2023

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

Tata 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
#6,176
1983
Peak year
1983
11 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tata

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

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Sibling names for Tata

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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