Girls' name · peaked in 1968
Tammie name popularity since 1925
35,514 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Tammie. Half of them were born in 1966 or earlier, so the typical Tammie is about 60 years old in 2026. Tammie peaked in 1968 as the #160 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 35,514
- Named Tammie, 1925–2025
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #14,756 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 99.6% girls
- 35,380 girls · 134 boys
- Most popular in
- Mississippi
- 2.20× its national share
Peak year is the year Tammie made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Tammie births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year by count was 1963. Measured as a share of all babies, Tammie peaked in 1968.
- Fastest rise: Between 1957 and 1962, Tammie became 3.7× more common, from 1 in 3,310 baby girls to 1 in 905.
- Steepest fall: Between 1973 and 1978, its share of baby girls fell by 65%, from 1 in 1,340 to 1 in 3,870.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Tammie's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Tammie.
Decade by decade
Babies named Tammie in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 5 | 0 | – |
| 1930s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1940s | 90 | 0 | #4,500 |
| 1950s | 3,981 | 9 | #1,727 |
| 1960s | 19,345 | 63 | #196 |
| 1970s | 9,579 | 57 | #318 |
| 1980s | 1,803 | 5 | #997 |
| 1990s | 370 | 0 | #4,090 |
| 2000s | 142 | 0 | #11,748 |
| 2010s | 53 | 0 | #16,231 |
| 2020–25 | 12 | 0 | #14,756 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
52.9% of babies named Tammie from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:
Where Tammie is most popular
The index compares Tammie's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Tammie.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 2.20× | 906 |
| Arkansas | 2.10× | 733 |
| South Carolina | 1.94× | 920 |
| Tennessee | 1.92× | 1,370 |
| Georgia | 1.73× | 1,626 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Tammie and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Tammie (this page) | 35,380 | 1968 |
| Tammy | 332,015 | 1968 |
| Tami | 37,927 | 1959 |
| Tammi | 13,884 | 1968 |
| Tamie | 3,237 | 1959 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Tammie's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Tammie.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Tammie (1968).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data