Meaning not yet researched.
Tami: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #154 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #154 in 1959; #8,813 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tami in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,813 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #154.
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Tami: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #154 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 2,741 (1959).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Tami, making it the 8,813th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,236 places from #12,049 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 8 girls named Tami in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #154, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,741. For comparison, it was #12,898 in 2015 and #1,999 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tami in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 7 babies. In all, 38,017 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 18,462 babies named Tami.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 51 US girls were named Tami; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tammy (333,407 babies since 1880), Tammi (13,884 babies since 1880), Tamyra (2,274 babies since 1880) and Tammie (35,514 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tamiah, Tamyia and Tameia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tamiah (799), Tamyia (321), Tameia (158), Tamiia (30), Thamia (5), Tahmia (5), Tayomi (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tami in the open dataset we use.
Tami is listed as a nickname for Tamara, Tammie, Tammy.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,813 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,049 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,244 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,441 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,477 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,776 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,898 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,423 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,930 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,358 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,115 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,767 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,074 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,488 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,060 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,226 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,825 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,365 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,652 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1989 | 119 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1988 | 128 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1987 | 174 | #944 | — | — |
| 1986 | 251 | #717 | — | — |
| 1985 | 248 | #706 | — | — |
| 1984 | 296 | #604 | — | — |
| 1983 | 358 | #531 | — | — |
| 1982 | 405 | #500 | 5 | #7,253 |
| 1981 | 455 | #467 | — | — |
| 1980 | 527 | #419 | — | — |
| 1979 | 651 | #354 | — | — |
| 1978 | 619 | #350 | 5 | #6,651 |
| 1977 | 622 | #355 | 8 | #4,540 |
| 1976 | 710 | #318 | — | — |
| 1975 | 832 | #289 | — | — |
| 1974 | 947 | #268 | 8 | #4,154 |
| 1973 | 1,001 | #252 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,288 | #215 | 6 | #4,935 |
| 1971 | 1,452 | #207 | 6 | #4,854 |
| 1970 | 1,556 | #206 | 8 | #3,802 |
| 1969 | 1,533 | #206 | 5 | #4,953 |
| 1968 | 1,659 | #191 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,488 | #207 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,534 | #203 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,722 | #192 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,733 | #205 | 5 | #4,546 |
| 1963 | 2,078 | #184 | — | — |
| 1962 | 2,209 | #177 | 5 | #4,563 |
| 1961 | 2,227 | #174 | — | — |
| 1960 | 2,259 | #176 | 5 | #4,545 |
| 1959 | 2,741 | #154 | 5 | #4,513 |
| 1958 | 1,829 | #191 | — | — |
| 1957 | 850 | #315 | — | — |
| 1956 | 128 | #884 | — | — |
| 1955 | 105 | #976 | — | — |
| 1954 | 85 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,763 | 5 | #4,147 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,817 | 8 | #3,070 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,912 | 6 | #3,489 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,086 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).