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Tamera vs Tamitha

American parents have registered 14,282 Tameras since 1880, against 454 Tamithas. Tamera is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tamera Tamitha

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 1970, when Tamera had 408 and Tamitha had 55.

Side by side

  Tamera Tamitha
Total US births 14,282454
Most in one year 61455
Babies in 2025 17under 5
Estimated living today 13,000420
Median age today 5454
Peak year 19591970
Best rank 381st girls1,681st girls
Rank in 2025 6,546thunranked
First recorded 19401966
Girls / boys 14,282 / 0454 / 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.

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