Meaning not yet researched.
Tam: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,851 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,851 in 1959; #17,015 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Tam in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#17,015 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #1,851.
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Tam: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,851 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 37 (1959).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Tam, making it the 17,015th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,851, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 37. For comparison, it was #11,747 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Tam, making it the 13,669th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,484 places from #12,185 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 boys named Tam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,408, reached in 1982. That year also had the most boys given the name: 46. For comparison, it was #7,971 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tam in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 5 babies. In all, 1,889 US babies have been given the name, 48% of them girls and 52% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 502 babies named Tam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 63 US girls were named Tam; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Taim, Taym and Tamme are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taim (663), Taym (363), Tamme (267), Tayem (19), Taime (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tam in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,015 | 5 | #13,669 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,185 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,082 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,498 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,067 | 5 | #13,845 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,272 | 11 | #7,440 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,375 | 8 | #9,637 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,484 | 12 | #7,081 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,738 | 10 | #8,073 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,048 | 10 | #8,085 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,747 | 10 | #7,971 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,472 | 8 | #9,524 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,181 | 7 | #10,597 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,357 | 11 | #7,493 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,449 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,482 | 7 | #10,623 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,605 | 14 | #6,391 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,073 | 19 | #5,041 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,547 | 19 | #4,964 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,546 | 14 | #6,059 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,822 | 18 | #4,800 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,604 | 19 | #4,580 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,358 | 14 | #5,517 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,650 | 18 | #4,473 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,043 | 18 | #4,449 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,489 | 16 | #4,761 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,245 | 17 | #4,316 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,517 | 20 | #3,691 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,279 | 12 | #5,239 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,089 | 20 | #3,537 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,469 | 28 | #2,673 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,073 | 20 | #3,450 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,462 | 28 | #2,634 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,456 | 30 | #2,458 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,390 | 29 | #2,459 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,105 | 36 | #2,082 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,261 | 35 | #2,065 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,639 | 26 | #2,352 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,895 | 33 | #1,934 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,878 | 33 | #1,870 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,053 | 35 | #1,758 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,304 | 41 | #1,528 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,793 | 33 | #1,744 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,325 | 46 | #1,408 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,860 | 31 | #1,858 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,216 | 20 | #2,525 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,964 | 19 | #2,555 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,601 | 8 | #4,518 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,338 | 7 | #5,064 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,029 | 20 | #2,319 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,410 | 12 | #3,217 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,620 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,302 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,193 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,723 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,448 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,176 | 5 | #4,595 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,504 | 6 | #4,005 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,901 | 8 | #3,245 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,638 | 12 | #2,479 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,305 | 10 | #2,779 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,613 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,422 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,130 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,293 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,034 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,623 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,474 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,881 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).