Tamala
Tamala reached its high-water mark in 1971 at number 798, and has been recorded 2,873 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2005. About 2,600 Tamalas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tamala
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,873
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1971
- Best rank
- 798th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1950
How old the living Tamalas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,873 babies given the name since 1950, about 2,600 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tamalas
- Tamala Jones (born 1974)American actress
People named Tamala with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tamala is most common
Across the country Tamala is recorded 0.44 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Tamalas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1971
The most popular girls’ names the year Tamala peaked:
Related names
Tamala against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.