Tammy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled תמי in IL Israel, Tomi in FI Finland and Tami in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tammy is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name187K records spelled Tammy9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Tãmmy, Tammÿ, Tâmmy

• Polish given name19K records spelled Tammy18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Таммі, Temi, Тэмми, Темі

• Greek given name12K records spelled Tammy5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, India

  Also written Tami, Ταμι, Τάμμυ, Τάμι

• Korean given name5.7K records spelled Tammy12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, South Korea, United Kingdom

  Languages: Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Taemi, 태미, Tae-Mi, Temi, Temmy

• Hungarian given name4.6K records spelled Tammy3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Támmy, Támmý

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tammy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• English: pet form of TAMARA and TAMSIN .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 91 years between 1934–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tammy Grimesb. 1934USAmerican actress and singer (1934-2016)
• Tammy Baldwinb. 1962USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1962)
• Tammy Bruceb. 1962USAmerican conservative radio host, author, and political commentator
• Bioncab. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress, director, producer and businesswoman
• Tammy Duckworthb. 1968USAmerican politician and military officer (born 1968)
• Tammy Laurenb. 1968USAmerican actress
• Tammy MacIntoshb. 1970AUAustralian actress
• Tammy Blanchardb. 1976USAmerican actress and singer
• Tammy Chenb. 1979TWTaiwanese actress
• Tammy Abrahamb. 1997GBEnglish association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 641 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tammy?

We estimate roughly 361 thousand people bear Tammy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Tammy have the most bearers?

We estimate about 277 thousand people bear Tammy in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tammy.

Where is Tammy most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tammy is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 254 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Tammy compared with other names?

In the United States, Tammy is the 141st most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Tammy a male or female name?

Tammy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

What does the name Tammy mean?

Recorded meaning: A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.