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Tamara vs Tamarcus

American parents have registered 131,703 Tamaras since 1880, against 554 Tamarcuses. Tamara is still ahead, with 111 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tamara against Tamarcus, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tamara Tamarcus

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tamara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Tamara had 181 and Tamarcus had 15.

Side by side

  Tamara Tamarcus
Total US births 131,703554
Most in one year 4,73327
Babies in 2025 111under 5
Estimated living today 121,000540
Median age today 5229
Peak year 19701999
Best rank 79th girls3,031st boys
Rank in 2025 1,808thunranked
First recorded 19171974
Girls / boys 131,286 / 4170 / 554

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tamaras alive today are over 52; half the Tamarcuses are over 29. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tamara and Tamarcus.