How popular is the name Tammy?

Tammy ranks 101st among girls' names in US records, with 406,879 births since 1927. Over the past decade it accounts for 476.

Is Tammy a unisex name?

No. Tammy is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1963, when 25,518 children were given the name. It has been in use for 98 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Tammie, Tami. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#101 of girl names

Pronounced T AE1 M IY0 (ARPABET)

Tammy is a girls' name, and first appears in 1927. It has been given to 406,879 children — the 101st most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 476 births across the past decade, against a peak of 25,518 in a single year. That peak was in 1963.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Tammie and Tami — because they are pronounced identically.

1963Girls: 25,518Boys: 58

These spellings sound identical to Tammy and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Tammy?: Tammy ranks 101st among girls' names in US records, with 406,879 births since 1927. Over the past decade it accounts for 476.
Is Tammy a unisex name?: No. Tammy is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Tammy most popular?: 1963, when 25,518 children were given the name. It has been in use for 98 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Tammy spelled?: Tammie, Tami. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.