Tamy
Feminine · “A spelling of Tammy”
Tamy is Tammy with a single m, a spelling of the late fifties. The word tammy has an unexpected life in the kitchen: it was the name of a fine cloth cooks used to strain their sauces.
How old is the name Tamy?
Tamy first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Tamy alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 600 people named Tamy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamy most popular?
Tamy peaked in 1959, reaching #1417 nationally. See the whole 1959 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tamara to Tamy
The story of Tamy
Before it was a girl's name, tammy was a fabric: a fine glazed cloth, and in cookery a tammy cloth was used to press sauces and soups through for a perfectly smooth finish, the word coming from French tamis, a sieve. Tammy the girl's name took off in the late fifties, and Tamy, with one m, appeared alongside it; nothing records why families chose the shorter spelling. With a single m some readers will be tempted to say TAY-mee.
Meaningscholars disagree
A spelling of Tammy, short for Tamara or Thomasina
Tammy usually shortens Tamara, Hebrew 'date palm', or Thomasina; Tamy is a spelling of it, and nothing records why the second m was dropped.
How the name formed
- Tamara
- Tammy
- Tamy
Related forms: Tammy · Tamar
Pronouncing Tamy
TAM-ee
Said like Tammy; the single m may lead some to say TAY-mee.
Nicknames for Tamy
Limited
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 196058 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1417reached in 1959
- Change vs 1993
- −16.7%5 in 1996, from 6
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.
Tamy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tammy in English — spelling variant
- Tamar in Hebrew — related form
Tamys among us
people named Tamy 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
Tamy 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
- Sounds like Tammy, a name everyone knows.
- Short and friendly.
- Distinct on paper.
- Almost everyone will write Tammy.
- The single m invites TAY-mee.
- It reads as a mid-century name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Tamy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamy in 2025?
- Tamy is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tamy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with T, all years combined.
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