Tammi
Feminine · “date palm”
Tammi is the -i spelling in a family of four, all resting on a name that a novel and a hit song put into every American household inside a decade.
How old is the name Tammi?
Tammi first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Tammi alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 13,000 people named Tammi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tammi most popular?
Tammi peaked in 1968, reaching #297 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tamar to Tammi
The story of Tammi
Tamar appears more than once in Genesis and Samuel and traveled into Russian and Georgian as Tamara, where a twelfth-century queen made it royal. Tammy as an independent American name is mid-century, arriving from a 1948 novel and the films made from it, and the respellings followed the endings of the day: Tammy, Tammie, Tami, Tammi. This spelling peaked in the early 1970s.
Meaningscholars disagree
date palm
Read as short for Tamara or Tamar, the meaning is the Hebrew tamar, 'date palm'. Read as short for Thomasina, it is the Aramaic te'oma, 'twin'. Most twentieth-century bearers had neither name on the certificate, so the meaning is inherited rather than assigned.
How the name formed
- tamar
- Tamara
- Tammy
- Tammi
Related forms: Tamar · Tamari · Tammy · Tami
Pronouncing Tammi
TAM-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first, the a as in 'ham'. All four spellings are said identically.
Nicknames for Tammi
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
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 1968873 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #297reached in 1968
- Change vs 2010
- +20.0%6 in 2013, 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.
Tammi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tamar in Hebrew — related form
- Tamari in Georgian — related form
- Tammy in English — spelling variant
- Tami in English — spelling variant
Tammis among us
people named Tammi 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
Tammi has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Tamar behind it is one of the oldest documented women's names still in use.
- Impossible to mispronounce in English.
- Tamara is available as a formal form with a documented royal history.
- Four spellings were current at once and Tammy is much the commonest.
- The name is sharply dated to the 1960s and 1970s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tammis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,000 people named Tammi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tammi in 2025?
- Tammi is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tammi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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