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Tatem vs Tatianna

American parents have registered 5,617 Tatiannas since 1880, against 669 Tatems. But in 2025 it was Tatem that was commoner, 23 babies to 22.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tatem against Tatianna, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tatem Tatianna

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

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Tatianna for 47 years and Tatem for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tatem Tatianna
Total US births 6695,617
Most in one year 42274
Babies in 2025 2322
Estimated living today 6605,500
Median age today 1523
Peak year 20061999
Best rank 4,685th girls798th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th5,554th
First recorded 19971974
Girls / boys 359 / 3105,617 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Tatiannas alive today are over 23; half the Tatems are over 15. That is 8 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: Tatem and Tatianna.