Tammy
Tammy was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,702 among girls’ names; 333,407 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 299,000 Americans named Tammy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 54 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tammy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tammy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tammy is “a female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.”
A diminutive of Tamsin and Tamara, later also used for new names beginning with Tam such as Tamika and Tamiya.
/ˈtæmi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tammy?
#3,702 among girls’ names, 2025
Tammy fell from #3,588 in 2015 to #3,702 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 24.6 to 25.5 per million.
21,246 babies in 1963, the peak
Tammy peaked in 1963, when 21,246 babies were given it (21,199 girls, #12 among girls’ names). The 41 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,702 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,878 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,350 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,007 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,398 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,154 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,329 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,066 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,869 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,694 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,588 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,072 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,119 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 57 | #3,001 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,985 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,611 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,118 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,815 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,768 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,494 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,416 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 164 | #1,306 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,183 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 194 | #1,096 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 192 | #1,107 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,084 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 205 | #1,002 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 254 | #841 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 237 | #864 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 225 | #878 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 272 | #751 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 327 | #656 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 358 | #630 | 0.20 |
| 1992 | 442 | #533 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 442 | #528 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 549 | #450 | 0.29 |
| 1989 | 589 | #423 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 719 | #343 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 864 | #284 | 0.50 |
| 1986 | 1,007 | #257 | 0.59 |
| 1985 | 1,196 | #217 | 0.70 |
| 1984 | 1,507 | #181 | 0.89 |
| 1983 | 1,781 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 2,262 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 1981 | 2,586 | #117 | 1.6 |
| 1980 | 3,134 | #96 | 1.9 |
| 1979 | 3,758 | #79 | 2.3 |
| 1978 | 4,070 | #67 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5,310 | #55 | 3.5 |
| 1976 | 6,228 | #41 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 7,528 | #31 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 9,238 | #24 | 6.3 |
| 1973 | 11,244 | #15 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 14,211 | #11 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 17,656 | #8 | 10.6 |
| 1970 | 19,587 | #8 | 11.2 |
| 1969 | 19,053 | #9 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 20,058 | #8 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 18,652 | #8 | 11.3 |
| 1966 | 18,621 | #8 | 11.0 |
| 1965 | 18,013 | #11 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 20,043 | #10 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 21,199 | #12 | 11.0 |
| 1962 | 16,743 | #23 | 8.5 |
| 1961 | 15,532 | #28 | 7.7 |
| 1960 | 14,317 | #31 | 7.1 |
| 1959 | 13,707 | #31 | 6.8 |
| 1958 | 9,987 | #44 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 4,365 | #107 | 2.1 |
| 1956 | 255 | #592 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 190 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 193 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 177 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 121 | #834 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 89 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 92 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 84 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 78 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 86 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,198 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,298 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,134 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,890 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tammy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tammy has been given almost only to girls: 1,392 boys in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tammy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tammy, and how old are they?
299,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 333,407 Americans ever recorded as Tammy. The median Tammy alive today is 59 years old; half are between 54 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 277,310 people named Tammy (276,909 women and girls, 401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 308,739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 108 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 100,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 181,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 552 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tammy born?
The states with the most babies named Tammy are California, Ohio and Texas, with 18% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21,422 | #3,485 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 19,156 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 18,990 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 17,400 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 15,708 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 14,788 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 14,589 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 14,537 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 11,861 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 11,663 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Tammy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tammy is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1934 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tammy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 441,462 babies since 1880, Tammy is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 131 babies (31%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tammy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tammy and names like it
- Compare Tammy and TamiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTammy peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tammy since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Tammy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tammy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.