Tandy

Where Tandy comes from

The dictionaries list Tandy as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #4,556 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Tandy Warnow born
    American computer scientist
  3. 1966
    Peak, #1,600
    49 babies named Tandy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,141.
  5. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Tandy Warnow · American computer scientist, born 1955

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.