Tatum was originally an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning ‘Tata’s homestead’ in Old English. Tata is an Old English masculine name of unknown origin.
Tatum is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to girls than boys.
The name Tatum is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #471 in the SmartGenius ranking.
Tatum is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Tatum cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #305 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Tatum, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their newborn child. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Tatum seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tatum was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 given names. Because: 6.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With five letters, the name Tatum is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
This means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an S, this initial letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Tatum 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 Tatum, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Tiger
Unicorn
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tatum
Tatum
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
T
U
M
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
T
U
M
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. Tatum sounds like this:
