Tammy

Where Tammy comes from

Tammy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1934
    First appearance
    #4,286 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Tammy Duckworth born
    American politician and military officer
  3. 1968
    Peak, #8
    20,058 babies named Tammy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #24.
  5. 1997
    Tammy Abraham born
    English association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tammy Abraham · English association football player, born 1997
  • Tammy Duckworth · American politician and military officer, born 1968
  • Tammy Baldwin · American lawyer and politician, born 1962
  • Tammy Blanchard · American actress and singer, born 1976
  • Tammy Grimes · American actress and singer, 1934–2016

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.