Tamatha
Feminine
Tamatha sits between Tamara and Tabitha and takes something from each. The front is Tamara's, the ending is Tabitha's, and the th in the middle is the only letter that could not have come from the first of them — which is a fair description of how a great many American names were built.
How old is the name Tamatha?
Tamatha first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Tamatha alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 2,600 people named Tamatha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamatha most popular?
Tamatha peaked in 1968, reaching #496 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tamara to Tamatha
The story of Tamatha
Blending is different from respelling, and the record makes the difference visible. A respelling keeps the sound and changes the letters; a blend changes the sound by taking material from two names at once. Tamatha appears in the nineteen-sixties, at exactly the point when both parent names were in wide use, and it peaks within a decade — which is the signature of a blend rather than a variant. Names built this way tend to be short-lived, because they depend on both parents being current at the same moment.
Meaningnot established
Not established
A name assembled from two others does not inherit either meaning. Tamara's Hebrew names a tree and Tabitha's Aramaic names an animal, and the compound carries neither.
How the name formed
- Tamara
- Tamatha
Pronouncing Tamatha
tuh-MATH-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. Some families use TAM-uh-thuh, front-weighted, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Tamatha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 1968381 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #496reached in 1968
- Change vs 1993
- 0.0%6 in 1996, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tamathas among us
people named Tamatha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tamatha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both parent names are familiar, so the blend is read correctly at sight.
- It carries several short forms with quite different characters.
- The stress in the middle gives it a lift most English names of its length do not have.
- It will be heard as Tabitha and Tamara by turns and written both ways.
- There is no inherited meaning, because a blend inherits nothing.
- It reads clearly as a name of the nineteen-sixties and seventies.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamathas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Tamatha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamatha in 2025?
- Tamatha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamatha with classmates?
- Tamatha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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