Primarily a girl's name · Unisex — 70% girls / 30% boys
Origin: DutchTatum is an English personal name of Old English origin, meaning "Tata's homestead". It is in use for both boys and girls.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Tatum yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Just 1,497 births in 2024 — the smallest count of any name covered here — though that's still a record for Tatum, matched by a fresh best-ever rank, #205, up 79% from a decade earlier.
Records here start in 1966, well past the dataset's halfway point, and this name's overall total comes to 38,455 births.
Actor Tatum O'Neal was born in 1963, four decades before the enrichment data's other namesake, singer Tate McRae — an unusually wide generational gap for such a small name.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #7,510 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,822 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,299 |
| 1975 | 91 | #1,250 |
| 1976 | 78 | #1,382 |
| 1977 | 100 | #1,224 |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,184 |
| 1979 | 80 | #1,495 |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,284 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,845 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,987 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,903 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,901 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,903 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,341 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,510 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,702 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,731 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,565 |
| 1991 | 117 | #1,381 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,321 |
| 1993 | 172 | #1,061 |
| 1994 | 189 | #983 |
| 1995 | 184 | #1,012 |
| 1996 | 203 | #948 |
| 1997 | 430 | #549 |
| 1998 | 689 | #399 |
| 1999 | 647 | #428 |
| 2000 | 675 | #420 |
| 2001 | 696 | #413 |
| 2002 | 752 | #392 |
| 2003 | 788 | #384 |
| 2004 | 814 | #384 |
| 2005 | 915 | #343 |
| 2006 | 949 | #348 |
| 2007 | 991 | #336 |
| 2008 | 885 | #371 |
| 2009 | 795 | #395 |
| 2010 | 965 | #334 |
| 2011 | 928 | #346 |
| 2012 | 950 | #329 |
| 2013 | 986 | #329 |
| 2014 | 834 | #391 |
| 2015 | 783 | #409 |
| 2016 | 775 | #422 |
| 2017 | 713 | #444 |
| 2018 | 744 | #416 |
| 2019 | 881 | #359 |
| 2020 | 903 | #343 |
| 2021 | 1,137 | #279 |
| 2022 | 1,156 | #274 |
| 2023 | 1,318 | #226 |
| 2024 | 1,497 | #205 |
