Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Tam” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tam” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tam” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Tam” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tam” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tam” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Tam” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tam” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 100%
1956 24 0.000005821 14 10 17%
1957 32 0.000007615 20 12 25%
1958 42 0.00001016 34 8 62%
1959 37 0.000008899 37 100%
1960 30 0.000007222 24 6 60%
1961 22 0.000005311 17 5 55%
1962 25 0.000006195 25 100%
1963 29 0.000007327 29 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 5 12 -41%
1976 27 0.000008898 7 20 -48%
1977 14 0.000004407 7 7 0%
1978 14 0.000004411 6 8 -14%
1979 27 0.000008115 8 19 -41%
1980 34 0.000009871 14 20 -18%
1981 43 0.00001243 12 31 -44%
1982 66 0.000018814 18 48 -45%
1983 54 0.000015592 21 33 -22%
1984 59 0.000016911 18 41 -39%
1985 50 0.000014009 15 35 -40%
1986 55 0.000015462 22 33 -20%
1987 46 0.000012758 13 33 -43%
1988 45 0.000012178 19 26 -16%
1989 52 0.000013526 17 35 -35%
1990 51 0.000012903 15 36 -41%
1991 36 0.000009242 7 29 -61%
1992 48 0.000012496 18 30 -25%
1993 37 0.000009814 9 28 -51%
1994 31 0.000008339 11 20 -29%
1995 37 0.000010103 9 28 -51%
1996 33 0.000009048 13 20 -21%
1997 23 0.000006344 11 12 -4%
1998 31 0.000008428 11 20 -29%
1999 23 0.000006227 6 17 -48%
2000 28 0.000007408 12 16 -14%
2001 37 0.000009884 19 18 3%
2002 39 0.000010433 21 18 8%
2003 24 0.000006312 10 14 -17%
2004 29 0.00000759 10 19 -31%
2005 31 0.000008063 13 18 -16%
2006 25 0.000006319 11 14 -12%
2007 29 0.000007254 10 19 -31%
2008 35 0.000008904 16 19 -9%
2009 25 0.000006544 11 14 -12%
2010 24 0.000006494 17 7 42%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 22 0.000006015 11 11 0%
2013 18 0.000004937 11 7 22%
2014 20 0.000005396 12 8 20%
2015 19 0.000005134 9 10 -5%
2016 21 0.000005724 11 10 5%
2017 16 0.000004474 6 10 -25%
2018 22 0.000006257 10 12 -9%
2019 14 0.000004033 6 8 -14%
2020 16 0.00000479 5 11 -38%
2021 11 0.000003247 6 5 9%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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