Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Tangala

#25,250 most common girls' name of all time · #40,967 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1964–1982

Rank among girls
#25,250
Rank overall
#40,967 of 105,966
First appeared
1964
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
97
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1970 #4,456
Best rank
#4,456 1970
Girls Boys peak 13/yr
1980

Tangala first appears in 1964. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1982 5 — 5 #11,170
1980 8 — 8 #7,775
1979 5 — 5 #10,854
1978 8 — 8 #7,291
1975 7 — 7 #7,630
1974 7 — 7 #7,339
1972 6 — 6 #7,872
1971 9 — 9 #5,884
1970 13 — 13 #4,456
1968 10 — 10 #4,747
1967 5 — 5 #7,567
1965 6 — 6 #6,453
1964 8 — 8 #5,472