How popular is “Tatum” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Tatum” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Tatum” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1966	5	0.000001439	5		100%
1973	34	0.00001127	25	9	47%
1974	97	0.000031908	83	14	71%
1975	101	0.00003345	91	10	80%
1976	88	0.000029002	78	10	77%
1977	116	0.000036518	100	16	72%
1978	118	0.000037179	107	11	81%
1979	86	0.000025849	80	6	86%
1980	121	0.000035128	100	21	65%
1981	68	0.000019657	60	8	76%
1982	53	0.000015108	53		100%
1983	60	0.000017324	55	5	83%
1984	62	0.000017771	56	6	81%
1985	68	0.000019052	59	9	74%
1986	106	0.0000298	99	7	87%
1987	94	0.00002607	86	8	83%
1988	76	0.000020568	76		100%
1989	85	0.00002211	79	6	86%
1990	109	0.000027578	98	11	80%
1991	126	0.000032347	117	9	86%
1992	136	0.000035405	128	8	88%
1993	187	0.000049598	172	15	84%
1994	209	0.000056218	189	20	81%
1995	197	0.000053793	184	13	87%
1996	230	0.000063062	203	27	77%
1997	449	0.000123836	430	19	92%
1998	717	0.000194932	689	28	92%
1999	688	0.000186255	647	41	88%
2000	718	0.000189952	675	43	88%
2001	733	0.000195812	696	37	90%
2002	791	0.000211594	752	39	90%
2003	832	0.000218814	788	44	89%
2004	885	0.000231619	814	71	84%
2005	1006	0.000261649	915	91	82%
2006	1057	0.000267176	949	108	80%
2007	1138	0.000284665	991	147	74%
2008	1019	0.000259244	885	134	74%
2009	934	0.000244491	795	139	70%
2010	1265	0.000342286	965	300	53%
2011	1242	0.000339549	928	314	49%
2012	1372	0.000375133	950	422	38%
2013	1473	0.000404041	986	487	34%
2014	1299	0.000350477	834	465	28%
2015	1256	0.000339376	783	473	25%
2016	1192	0.000324911	775	417	30%
2017	1170	0.000327163	713	457	22%
2018	1273	0.00036207	744	529	17%
2019	1477	0.000425534	881	596	19%
2020	1501	0.000449324	903	598	20%
2021	1974	0.000582653	1137	837	15%
2022	2213	0.000654127	1156	1057	4%
2023	2819	0.000851354	1318	1501	-6%
2024	3330	0.00100045	1497	1833	-10%

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