Tamia
Feminine
Tamia is a recent American name that stands close to Tamara without any record that it descends from it. Tamar in Hebrew is the date palm — a real tree with a real place in the culture that named it.
How old is the name Tamia?
Tamia first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Tamia alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 12,500 people named Tamia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamia most popular?
Tamia peaked in 2001, reaching #358 nationally. Today it ranks #2933, 2,575 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tamia
Our story of Tamia is about a family of names that grew without a rulebook. Across the second half of the twentieth century, American parents built an enormous set of girls' names on the Ta- opening — Tamika, Tanisha, Tameka, Tamia, Tawana — most of them new, all of them following patterns speakers recognized even where no dictionary did. Somewhere at the edge of that field stands Hebrew Tamar, the date palm, which may or may not have anything to do with any of them. What is certain is that this name belongs to a real and productive naming tradition rather than to a mistake, and that is the more useful thing to know about it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Hebrew tamar means the date palm, and Tamar and Tamara are names built on it; the tree fed and shaded a great deal of the ancient Near East and was a fair thing to name a daughter for. That reading is documented for those names. Tamia is not recorded as descending from them: it appears in American use in the late twentieth century alongside Tamika, Tania and Tamia without a derivation, and the resemblance is not an ancestry.
Pronouncing Tamia
tuh-MEE-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. TAM-ee-uh, with the stress at the front, is also heard and both circulate in American use.
Nicknames for Tamia
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
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 2004833 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #358reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- +9.6%57 in 2025, from 52
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.
Tamia in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Georgia.
Tamias among us
people named Tamia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 28,198 born in 2025 was named Tamia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tamia
- #2933
- Tamia on the 2025 chart
- #875
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tamia went to 57 girls in 2025, but Tamiyah, Tamiya and Tamya are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 85, which makes it the 875th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,058 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 18,909 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,198 for Tamia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Leann test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tamia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Leann climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Leann's path sketches the road Tamia is walking now.
Tamia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tamia is headed
Tamia is easing off slowly — about 33% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tamia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tamia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tam and Mia are both ready short forms and Mia is a very widely used name of its own.
- Every sound in it is easy in English, so it is said correctly on sight.
- Five letters and three syllables, which balances a short surname well.
- It has no documented meaning, so anything offered for it has been supplied.
- Tamia, Tamiya, Tamya and Tamea all circulate and none is standard.
- The two stress patterns both appear, so the child will be correcting people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Tamia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tamia?
- Tamia is the most-used spelling in US records — 57 of the 85 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Tamiyah, Tamiya and Tamya.
- How popular is the name Tamia in 2025?
- Tamia ranks #2933 among US girl names in 2025, with 57 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tamia?
- About 1 in every 28,198 US girls born in 2025 was named Tamia — 57 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tamia with classmates?
- Tamia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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