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Tupac

#13,723 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Tupaq

Tupac has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #13,723 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Tupac, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tupac over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tupac: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tupaq

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tupac means

Tupac is a form of Tupaq.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tupac is used in History.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tupaq.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 boys were recorded with the name Tupac between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,058 in 1997.

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 Tupac?

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 boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,723
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Tupacs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tupac was born before 2003 — so the typical Tupac is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
91
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Choose a decade

1990s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Tupac 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
50.0%
Peak was 1997 (10)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,058
1997

Spellings of Tupac

Tupac is not the most common spelling — Tuan is, with 94.0% against Tupac's 6.0%.

  • Tuan94.0%1,417
  • Tupac6.0%91

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.

Tupac by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,058
1997
Peak year
1997
10 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Tupac

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

Tupou

Sibling names for Tupac

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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