Tatem

Gender: Mostly boys
Say it: TAY-tum
Origin: English
US rank, 2025: #5,397 for boys

Tatem is a name of English origin, meaning “Tata's homestead”. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).

What does Tatem mean?

English: variant of Tatum, from the place name Tatham

“Tata's homestead”

A spelling of Tatum, an English surname taken from Tatham in Lancashire.

Is Tatem a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Tatem has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls and 17 boys in the US.

How popular is Tatem in the US?

Rank in 2025: 5,397th among boys
Babies in 2025: 17 about 1 in 100,000 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, 17 boys in the US were named Tatem, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999. 6 girls were also named Tatem in 2025 (13,203rd for girls).

Half of all the boys named Tatem in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,829 boys in the US were given Tatem or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #218, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.

Tatum 1,736
Taytum 68
Tatem 17
Taitum 8

Girls were 68% of the babies named Tatem in the US in 2004, and 37% in 2023.

1999Busiest: 22 in 20132025

Tatem in the US, year by year

Year	Boys	Rank
2025	17	#5,397
2024	6	#10,930
2023	19	#5,070
2022	14	#6,141
2021	9	#8,161
2020	7	#9,548
2019	7	#9,750
2018	12	#6,699
2017	8	#8,835
2016	8	#8,811
2015	14	#5,995
2014	15	#5,729
2013	22	#4,311
2012	19	#4,857
2011	16	#5,429
2010	15	#5,737
2009	13	#6,432
2008	12	#6,758
2007	19	#4,806
2006	12	#6,455
2005	11	#6,628
2004	10	#6,970
2003	0	–
2002	8	#7,636
2001	8	#7,529
2000	0	–
1999	9	#6,524