Tamie
Feminine · “date palm”
Tamie writes with one m what the commoner spelling doubles, and the doubling is not decoration: it is the only thing keeping the first vowel short. With a single m, English wants to read the name as TAY-mee, which is a different name altogether.
How old is the name Tamie?
Tamie first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Tamie alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 2,900 people named Tamie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamie most popular?
Tamie peaked in 1959, reaching #575 nationally. See the whole 1959 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tamar to Tamie
The story of Tamie
The name's American run has a very specific trigger. A film of the nineteen-fifties about a girl from a river shanty boat carried the name in its title and produced a title song that went to the top of the charts; three sequels followed, and then a television series. The record shows the whole family of spellings — Tammy, Tami, Tammie, Tamie — climbing in exactly those years and peaking within a year or two of each other. What is unusual is that the film's heroine was a made-up character with a made-up name; the Hebrew original behind it had nothing to do with the wave.
Meaning
date palm
The name behind it is Hebrew and names a tree. This spelling inherits the sense along with the sound, and adds nothing of its own.
How the name formed
- Tamar
- Tammy
- Tamie
Related forms: Tamar
Pronouncing Tamie
TAM-ee
Two syllables with the weight at the front, the first with the vowel of ram. The single m invites TAY-mee, which is the one correction this spelling requires.
Nicknames for Tamie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 1959293 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #575reached in 1959
- Change vs 2005
- 0.0%5 in 2016, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tamie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tamar in Hebrew — related form
Tamies among us
people named Tamie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tamie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is said correctly by everyone who has met the commoner spelling.
- It works as a full name and as a short form, which gives a family two ways to use it.
- Five letters and two syllables, with nothing complicated in it.
- Tammy, Tami and Tammie are all in the record and will be written instead.
- The single m genuinely invites a wrong reading, unlike most respellings.
- It belongs firmly to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Tamie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamie in 2025?
- Tamie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamie with classmates?
- Tamie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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