Tatum
See also: -tatum
English
Etymology
From Tatham, from Old English Tāta, a personal name of unknown meaning + hām.
Proper noun
Tatum
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- c. 1988 Stuart Dybek, Chopin in Winter, The Graywolf Short Stories, Vol.45, Graywolf Press (1988), page 82:
- By the time a letter from Marcy finally came, explaining that the entire time she had been living on the South Side in a Negro neighborhood near the university, and that she had a son whom she'd named Tatum Kubiac—"Tatum" after a famous jazz pianist—it seemed to make little difference.
- c. 1988 Stuart Dybek, Chopin in Winter, The Graywolf Short Stories, Vol.45, Graywolf Press (1988), page 82:
- A female given name transferred from the surname.
- 2009, Jan Payne, The World's Best Book, Running Press, →ISBN, page 114:
- The youngest ever Oscar-winner is an actress called Tatum O'Neal, who was ten when she won Best Supporting Act for the film Paper Moon (1973).
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- A village in Cameroon.
- A town in New Mexico.
- A town in South Carolina.
- A city in Texas.
Related terms
- Tate
Anagrams
- mutat, mutat.