Meaning not yet researched.
Tatum: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,736 in 2025. Its best rank was #195 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #195 in 2024; #202 in 2025. About 51% of babies named Tatum in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#202 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #195.
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Tatum: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,736 boys in 2025. Peak: #195 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 1,841 (2024).
In 2025, 1,736 US boys were named Tatum, making it the 202nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #195 in 2024. That is 105 fewer than the 1,841 boys named Tatum in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #195, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,841. For comparison, it was #587 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 1,661 US girls were named Tatum, making it the 189th most common girls’ name of the year, up 16 places from #205 in 2024. That is 159 more than the 1,502 girls named Tatum in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #189, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,661. For comparison, it was #409 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tatum in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 41,874 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 15,252 babies named Tatum.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,573 US boys were named Tatum; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,841. In 2025 that was about 1 in 984 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tatum ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #89 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Taytum (4,618 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tatem, Taitum and Tatym are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tatem (669), Taitum (597), Tatym (308), Taytem (227), Taetum (165), Tateum (78), Taitym (44), Taetym (5), Tatom (5).
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 Tatum in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 11 | #89 | — |
| Kentucky | 53 | #104 | #455 |
| North Dakota | 12 | #104 | — |
| West Virginia | 19 | #108 | #374 |
| Louisiana | 47 | #111 | #458 |
| Missouri | 63 | #113 | #406 |
| Indiana | 66 | #123 | #479 |
| North Carolina | 93 | #133 | #620 |
| Mississippi | 24 | #136 | #243 |
| Alabama | 41 | #140 | #477 |
| Montana | 10 | #144 | — |
| New Mexico | 14 | #146 | — |
| Ohio | 92 | #150 | #725 |
| South Carolina | 37 | #162 | — |
| Nebraska | 18 | #164 | #499 |
| Tennessee | 60 | #164 | #475 |
| Nevada | 19 | #168 | #445 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #168 | — |
| Massachusetts | 40 | #172 | — |
| Arkansas | 22 | #173 | #353 |
| Virginia | 52 | #178 | #462 |
| Connecticut | 20 | #178 | — |
| South Dakota | 8 | #188 | #286 |
| Georgia | 65 | #192 | #620 |
| Michigan | 55 | #193 | #965 |
| Maryland | 30 | #199 | #699 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #199 | #545 |
| Minnesota | 33 | #200 | #426 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #200 | — |
| Maine | 7 | #201 | — |
| Iowa | 20 | #204 | #259 |
| Florida | 102 | #211 | #1,019 |
| Utah | 24 | #222 | #418 |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | #234 | #847 |
| Colorado | 28 | #235 | #361 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #243 | #308 |
| Illinois | 47 | #247 | #884 |
| Idaho | 11 | #252 | #433 |
| Oregon | 16 | #280 | #422 |
| Washington | 27 | #281 | #514 |
| Texas | 135 | #287 | #573 |
| Kansas | 12 | #321 | #573 |
| Arizona | 23 | #342 | #664 |
| New York | 52 | #343 | #1,602 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #407 | — |
| California | 76 | #428 | #732 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,661 | #189 | 1,736 | #202 |
| 2024 | 1,502 | #205 | 1,841 | #195 |
| 2023 | 1,319 | #227 | 1,504 | #233 |
| 2022 | 1,156 | #274 | 1,058 | #318 |
| 2021 | 1,137 | #279 | 837 | #386 |
| 2020 | 903 | #344 | 598 | #490 |
| 2019 | 882 | #359 | 596 | #487 |
| 2018 | 744 | #416 | 529 | #534 |
| 2017 | 713 | #444 | 457 | #598 |
| 2016 | 775 | #422 | 417 | #637 |
| 2015 | 783 | #409 | 473 | #587 |
| 2014 | 834 | #391 | 465 | #593 |
| 2013 | 986 | #329 | 487 | #545 |
| 2012 | 950 | #329 | 422 | #599 |
| 2011 | 928 | #346 | 314 | #725 |
| 2010 | 965 | #335 | 301 | #752 |
| 2009 | 796 | #395 | 139 | #1,271 |
| 2008 | 885 | #371 | 134 | #1,302 |
| 2007 | 991 | #336 | 147 | #1,205 |
| 2006 | 950 | #347 | 108 | #1,445 |
| 2005 | 915 | #343 | 91 | #1,552 |
| 2004 | 814 | #384 | 71 | #1,782 |
| 2003 | 788 | #384 | 44 | #2,421 |
| 2002 | 752 | #392 | 39 | #2,551 |
| 2001 | 696 | #413 | 37 | #2,611 |
| 2000 | 675 | #420 | 43 | #2,291 |
| 1999 | 647 | #428 | 41 | #2,259 |
| 1998 | 689 | #399 | 28 | #2,918 |
| 1997 | 430 | #549 | 19 | #3,718 |
| 1996 | 203 | #948 | 27 | #2,826 |
| 1995 | 184 | #1,012 | 13 | #4,753 |
| 1994 | 189 | #983 | 20 | #3,453 |
| 1993 | 172 | #1,061 | 15 | #4,198 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,321 | 8 | #6,626 |
| 1991 | 117 | #1,381 | 9 | #5,886 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,565 | 11 | #4,956 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,731 | 6 | #7,803 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,510 | 8 | #5,402 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,341 | 7 | #5,867 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,903 | 9 | #4,651 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,901 | 6 | #6,239 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,903 | 5 | #7,220 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,845 | 8 | #4,912 |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,284 | 21 | #2,437 |
| 1979 | 80 | #1,495 | 6 | #5,967 |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,184 | 11 | #3,585 |
| 1977 | 100 | #1,224 | 16 | #2,772 |
| 1976 | 78 | #1,382 | 10 | #3,692 |
| 1975 | 91 | #1,250 | 10 | #3,635 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,299 | 14 | #2,784 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,821 | 9 | #3,665 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,510 | — | — |
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).