Tammy
Tammy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 8th, in 1966–1968, 1970–1971.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196321,193 births
- Best rank
- #8first in 1966
- Since 1934
- 333,366people given the name
The story in the numbers
331,974 girls have been named Tammy in the United States since 1934, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 21,193 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 21,193 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 55%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100 and 7 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,392 boys have also been given it, 0.42% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tammy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 31 | |
| 1940s | 490 | |
| 1950s | 29,179 | |
| 1960s | 182,224 | |
| 1970s | 98,830 | |
| 1980s | 15,648 | |
| 1990s | 3,312 | |
| 2000s | 1,561 | |
| 2010s | 545 | |
| 2020s | 154 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Tammy was the 12th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Tammy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tracyepeak 1965
- Tammiepeak 1963
- Machellepeak 1968
- Tammipeak 1968
- Tinapeak 1968
- Shellipeak 1968
- Lisapeak 1965
- Shawnepeak 1969
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.