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Tillman

#4,033 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tillman has been given to 3,739 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,033 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Tillman, 2025

1 in 123,000

Tillman over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tillman: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tillman means

Tillman is a given name.

The naming story behind Tillman

Wikidata records Tillman as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q92990463, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,732 boys were recorded with the name Tillman between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1917; its best national rank was #408 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,262 in 2020 to #4,033 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,078 in 2015 to #4,033 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Tillman between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2019; its best national rank was #13,690 in 2019.

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 Tillman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,033
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tillman 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 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tillman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tillmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tillman was born before 1944 — so the typical Tillman is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,659
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Choose a decade

1920s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (515).

Is Tillman 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
−63
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−771
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−955
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.0%
Peak was 1917 (75)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#408
1891

Spellings of Tillman

Tillman is not the most common spelling — Killian is, with 41.0% against Tillman's 9.4%.

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 Tillman is used

Across 1910–2025, Tillman was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 66,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 10,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tillman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tillman around the world

Where Tillman 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.

  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tillman

People whose public names include Tillman, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tillman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,033
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 771
Best rank ever
#408
1891
Peak year
1917
75 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,732
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,690
2019
Peak year
2019
7 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tillman

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

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Names with a curve like Tillman

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tillman, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HendersonIvyCrawfordJudgeLuciousObieOranLonzoRowlandEnnisMahlonGiles

Sibling names for Tillman

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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