Tamia

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 212 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
212
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies

Tamia by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Tamia. In the US, 212 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 833 babies in 2004, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Tamia

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 Tamia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Taniafairy queen; a form of Tatiana186 in the US (2017)
  • Tasiaresurrection; a form of Anastasia25 in the US (2017)
  • Tamiratall; palm tree; a form of Tamar21 in the US (2017)
  • Taviaof Octavia; short form of Octavia12 in the US (2017)
  • Tamipalm tree; a form of tamar3 in England and Wales (2025)

Sounds like Tamia

Names that are said the same way as Tamia, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Tamia

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