How rare is the name Tammi?

12,201 people in the United States have the first name Tammi, about 1 in 24,755. It ranks #2,173 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TAMMI

#2,173

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,201
About
1 in 24,755
This common or more
78.8%
Who bears it

Of the 12,201 people named Tammi, 81.4% reported their origin as White, 10.9% as Black and 3.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tammi peaked in 1968, when 873 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502013
Peak year
1968
Births that year
873
In 2013
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 13,884 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tammi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #660. The largest share of babies named Tammi, 61.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#1,6001,100
1960s#6606,514
1970s#7884,815
1980s#2,0411,130
1990s#7,470224
2000s#17,39090
2010s#39,70011
Baby boom 1946–6429.7%
Generation X 1965–8061.4%
Millennials 1981–967.9%
Generation Z 1997–121%
2013 and later0%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tammi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tammi has been most common in Nebraska (2.1×), Wisconsin (1.8×), and Iowa (1.7×), and least common in Mississippi (0.35×).

12,103 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Tammi

#2,171 Deena · 12,237#2,172 Amparo · 12,231#2,174 Mamie · 12,195#2,175 Jordon · 12,179

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tammi, most common first.

#193 Tammy · 277,310#1,205 Tami · 32,380#1,295 Tammie · 28,415#29,770 Tamme · 296#31,246 Taimi · 275#32,550 Tamma · 258#51,822 Tammia · 111

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