Tilghman

Boys' name

Variant of Tillman

Tilghman has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1922, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Tilghman, 2017

1 in 715,000

Tilghman over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tilghman: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tillman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tilghman means

Tilghman is a variant of Tillman.

Origin, language, and formation

Tilghman is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tillman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 58 boys were recorded with the name Tilghman between 1915 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1922; its best national rank was #3,046 in 1915.

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 Tilghman?

Tilghman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 715,000; 5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 370,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 495,893 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tilghman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tilghman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tilghmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tilghman was born before 1924 — so the typical Tilghman is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Tilghman 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 1922 (9)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,046; 1915

Spellings of Tilghman

Tilghman is not the most common spelling — Tillman is, with 79.1% against Tilghman's 1.2%.

Tillman79.1%3,732
Tilman19.7%930
Tilghman1.2%58

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.

Tilghman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,046; 1915
Peak year: 1922; 9 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 58
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tilghman

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

Tillian Tillman Tiller Tilman Beauman Soliman Sukhman Anshuman Ayushman Tilian Steadman Tillmon Suleyman Arshman Benjman Sriman Sulieman Feynman Tildon Waitman Koleman Suleman Wellman Tillie

Sibling names for Tilghman

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Filomena Lavinia

For a brother

Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus Olen

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