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Tammi vs Tammie

American parents have registered 35,514 Tammies since 1880, against 13,884 Tammis. Tammie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tammi against Tammie, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tammi Tammie

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

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Tammie for 77 years and Tammi for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tammi Tammie
Total US births 13,88435,514
Most in one year 8732,257
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 13,00032,000
Median age today 5658
Peak year 19681963
Best rank 297th girls172nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19501927
Girls / boys 13,884 / 035,380 / 134

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 Tammies alive today are over 58; half the Tammis are over 56. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tammi Tammie
Scotland 8384
England and Wales 7583

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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