Meaning not yet researched.
Tammy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #8 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8 in 1971; #3,703 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tammy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,703 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #8.
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Tammy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #8 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 21,199 (1963).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Tammy, making it the 3,703rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,178 places from #4,881 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 28 girls named Tammy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8, reached in 1971. The most girls given the name in a single year was 21,199, in 1963. For comparison, it was #3,588 in 2015 and #936 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tammy in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 5 babies. In all, 333,407 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 182,845 babies named Tammy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 403 US girls were named Tammy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tamara (131,703 babies since 1880), Tami (38,017 babies since 1880), Tammie (35,514 babies since 1880) and Tammi (13,884 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tamy, Tamea and Tameya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tami and Tammie.
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tamy (623), Tamea (298), Tameya (190), Taimi (172), Tamey (150), Tamee (127), Tammee (92), Thamar (90), Tamye (42), Tammia (29), Tamio (13), Tahmya (11), and more.
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.
Tammy is listed as a nickname for Tamara, Tamarra, Tammie.
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 | 41 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,010 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,402 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,067 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,694 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,588 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2012 | 57 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2004 | 164 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2002 | 194 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 2001 | 192 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1999 | 205 | #1,004 | 5 | #11,408 |
| 1998 | 254 | #841 | — | — |
| 1997 | 237 | #864 | — | — |
| 1996 | 225 | #878 | — | — |
| 1995 | 272 | #752 | — | — |
| 1994 | 327 | #656 | — | — |
| 1993 | 358 | #630 | — | — |
| 1992 | 442 | #533 | — | — |
| 1991 | 442 | #528 | 5 | #9,463 |
| 1990 | 549 | #451 | 10 | #5,325 |
| 1989 | 589 | #423 | 7 | #6,851 |
| 1988 | 719 | #343 | 7 | #6,344 |
| 1987 | 864 | #284 | 14 | #3,488 |
| 1986 | 1,007 | #257 | 14 | #3,425 |
| 1985 | 1,196 | #217 | 14 | #3,371 |
| 1984 | 1,507 | #181 | 15 | #3,089 |
| 1983 | 1,781 | #159 | 18 | #2,661 |
| 1982 | 2,262 | #134 | 13 | #3,462 |
| 1981 | 2,586 | #117 | 9 | #4,456 |
| 1980 | 3,134 | #96 | 18 | #2,718 |
| 1979 | 3,758 | #79 | 16 | #2,887 |
| 1978 | 4,070 | #67 | 22 | #2,195 |
| 1977 | 5,310 | #55 | 29 | #1,818 |
| 1976 | 6,228 | #41 | 35 | #1,568 |
| 1975 | 7,528 | #31 | 46 | #1,277 |
| 1974 | 9,238 | #24 | 61 | #1,060 |
| 1973 | 11,244 | #15 | 39 | #1,350 |
| 1972 | 14,211 | #11 | 60 | #1,048 |
| 1971 | 17,656 | #8 | 62 | #1,042 |
| 1970 | 19,587 | #8 | 87 | #867 |
| 1969 | 19,053 | #9 | 79 | #868 |
| 1968 | 20,058 | #8 | 72 | #860 |
| 1967 | 18,652 | #8 | 74 | #834 |
| 1966 | 18,621 | #8 | 61 | #937 |
| 1965 | 18,013 | #11 | 34 | #1,333 |
| 1964 | 20,043 | #10 | 76 | #879 |
| 1963 | 21,199 | #12 | 47 | #1,136 |
| 1962 | 16,743 | #23 | 64 | #951 |
| 1961 | 15,532 | #28 | 52 | #1,094 |
| 1960 | 14,317 | #31 | 55 | #1,042 |
| 1959 | 13,707 | #31 | 58 | #1,018 |
| 1958 | 9,987 | #44 | 47 | #1,127 |
| 1957 | 4,365 | #107 | 34 | #1,362 |
| 1956 | 255 | #593 | 6 | #3,894 |
| 1955 | 190 | #681 | 7 | #3,473 |
| 1954 | 193 | #670 | — | — |
| 1953 | 177 | #679 | 6 | #3,763 |
| 1952 | 121 | #835 | 8 | #3,079 |
| 1951 | 89 | #995 | — | — |
| 1950 | 92 | #936 | — | — |
| 1949 | 84 | #981 | — | — |
| 1948 | 78 | #992 | — | — |
| 1947 | 86 | #963 | — | — |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,300 | 6 | #3,498 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,892 | — | — |
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).