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Tatiyanna vs Tatum

American parents have registered 41,874 Tatums since 1880, against 501 Tatiyannas. Tatum is still ahead, with 3,397 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tatiyanna against Tatum, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tatiyanna Tatum

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

Tatum has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Tatiyanna had 25 and Tatum had 230.

Side by side

  Tatiyanna Tatum
Total US births 50141,874
Most in one year 353,397
Babies in 2025 under 53,397
Estimated living today 50042,000
Median age today 2210
Peak year 19992025
Best rank 3,509th girls189th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked189th
First recorded 19931966
Girls / boys 501 / 028,649 / 13,225

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 Tatiyannas alive today are over 22; half the Tatums are over 10. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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