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Tamera vs Tamiah

American parents have registered 14,282 Tameras since 1880, against 799 Tamiahs. Tamera is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tamera against Tamiah, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tamera Tamiah

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

Tamera has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1940 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Tamera had 22 and Tamiah had 15.

Side by side

  Tamera Tamiah
Total US births 14,282799
Most in one year 61465
Babies in 2025 17under 5
Estimated living today 13,000790
Median age today 5419
Peak year 19592003
Best rank 381st girls2,497th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546thunranked
First recorded 19401991
Girls / boys 14,282 / 0799 / 0

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 Tameras alive today are over 54; half the Tamiahs are over 19. That is 35 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tamera Tamiah
England and Wales 26734

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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