Tamala

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables.

Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list

Tamala by the numbers

Its American peak was 176 babies in 1971, making it a 1970s name.

What we can tell you about Tamala

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tamala. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Tamarapalm tree39 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Tamaya10 in the US (2017)
  • Tamila5 in the US (2017)
  • Tamela
  • Taylatailor; a form of Taylor90 in the US (2017)
  • Tamarpalm tree74 in the US (2017)

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