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Tami vs Tamre

American parents have registered 38,017 Tamis since 1880, against 91 Tamres. Tami is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tami against Tamre, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tami Tamre

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tami has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1942 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Tami had 1,829 and Tamre had 64.

Side by side

  Tami Tamre
Total US births 38,01791
Most in one year 2,74664
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 34,00080
Median age today 5867
Peak year 19591958
Best rank 154th girls1,322nd girls
Rank in 2025 8,362ndunranked
First recorded 19421958
Girls / boys 37,927 / 9091 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tamres alive today are over 67; half the Tamis are over 58. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tami and Tamre.