Tatum

What Tatum means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Tatum yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #585 in 2015, #202 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Tatum?

US: Rising: up from #585 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3373 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 1,841 boys got the name (#195 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 984 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,312 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (3.77 per 1,000 boys), ND (3.58 per 1,000 boys), WV (3.09 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Tatum is #202 in the US and #1406 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 51.1% of US babies named Tatum were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Taytum68 US
• Tatem17 US
• Taitum8 US
• Tateum6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Tatum

Boys

• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Miller#369From a surname for “a miller”^*
• Fletcher#545“arrow-maker”^*
• Sutton#332“south + town”^*
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025

For a sister

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Ellis#682“benevolent, kind”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Tatum’s. Rank is US 2025.