Tama is traditionally a female first name but has increasingly been given as a boys’ name in recent years.
Recently, the name Tama has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Tama. That means that a girl named Tama is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tama.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Tama. Girls named Tama have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,020 Tama ranked higher than ever in 1959. By comparison, there have been 78 years in which the first name Tama has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Tama only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tama was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Tama are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Tama is registered in 13 states, among which are California, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan or Missouri. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Tama live in Oklahoma, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 54,808 would turn around if you called the name Tama across Oklahoma.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Tama is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tama and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tama, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tama
Tama
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
M
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
M
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tama sounds like this:
