Tamala
Recorded 1950–2005 · United States
Tamala was most popular in 1971, when 176 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,403 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,873 people named Tamala.
Tamala over time
How old is the name Tamala?
Tamala first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1950, which makes it about 75 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 50 of the 76 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Tamala?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,873 American births named Tamala between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,647 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tamala in 2025?
Tamala was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Tamala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tamala is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,873 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Tamala?
Roughly 2,647 Americans named Tamala are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 56 years old, and half are between 51 and 62. That is a narrow band: Tamala arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Tamala is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org