Tacoma
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- tuh-KOH-muh
- Origin
- Native American
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Tacoma is a boys' name of Native American origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Tacoma mean?
Native American: US place name, from the Lushootseed name for Mount Rainier
Named after the city of Tacoma, Washington, which takes its name from the Lushootseed name for Mount Rainier.
Is Tacoma a girl's or a boy's name?
Tacoma is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tacoma in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Tacoma, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 32 boys. It first appears in the records in 1979.
2025 had more boys named Tacoma than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Tacoma in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tacoma in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,693 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,898 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,777 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,628 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,132 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,265 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,878 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,837 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,489 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,054 |
Names like Tacoma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dakota, Takoda, Dakoda, Luca, Ezra, Kobe, Thiago, Montana, Yehuda, Tadeo, Amari, Omari
More Native American names
Tallulah, Nayeli, Winona, Kenai, Cree, Xochitl, Xitlali, Citlali, Alaska, Talulah, Sequoia, Denali, Tennessee, Lakota, Wynonna, Dakotah
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tacoma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tacoma, updated 20 October 2026.