Tammye
Tammye was last recorded in 1980, when 7 babies were given it; 666 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tammye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tammye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,978, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1962, the peak
Tammye peaked in 1962, when 66 girls were given it, #1,374 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 7 | #8,978 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,251 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,103 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,721 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,068 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,314 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,941 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,874 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,792 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,438 | 17.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 28 | #2,506 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,996 | 22.6 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,623 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,132 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,148 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,576 | 28.0 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,504 | 29.1 |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,374 | 33.6 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,609 | 24.8 |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,465 | 28.2 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,475 | 26.7 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,675 | 20.9 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,810 | 8.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tammye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tammye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tammye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tammye, and how old are they?
An estimated 584 Americans named Tammye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 57 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 576 people named Tammye (576 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 608 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Tammye born?
The states with the most babies named Tammye are Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 170 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Tennessee | 34 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 23 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 13 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Tammye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tammye is most over-represented in Texas: since 1957 it was given 4.2 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 Tammye 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 392,452 babies since 1880, Tammye is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 62 babies recorded by SSA was a Tammye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tammye
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 Tammye and names like it
- Compare Tammye and TammyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTammye peaked in 1962.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tammye since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Tammye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tammye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.