Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tamzin isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tamzin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 85
- 0 boys · 85 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,016 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −75%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,016 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2017.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tamzin’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tamzin
- Tamzin MerchantBritish actressborn 1987
- Tamzin OuthwaiteBritish actressborn 1970
- Tamzin MallesonEnglish actressborn 1974
- Tamzin ThomasSouth African sprinterborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.