Tammy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tami/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tammy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 71st most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 598(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 690
- SGSingapore≈1 in 725
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tammy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #359 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 578 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 598 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tomi in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tammy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 690 | — | Tammy | 49 |
| US United States | #149 | 277,310 | 1 in 1.2K | 277K | Tammy | 578 |
| GB United Kingdom | #222 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 988 | 1.3K | Tammy | 240 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | listed | Tammy | 74 |
| CA Canada | #126 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 755 | 7 | Tammy | 267 |
| SE Sweden | — | 40,109as Tommy | 1 in 254 | 40K | Tammy | 35 |
| FI Finland | — | 15,965as Tomi | 1 in 349 | 17K | Tomi | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,056as Tommy | 1 in 604 | 33K | Tammy | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #98 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 598 | 131 | Tammy | 58 |
| SG Singapore | #71 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 725 | — | Tammy | 61 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 277K | #193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 401 | #193 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 63 | #11,670 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #11,139 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 41 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 41 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #11,271 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #35,862 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 5 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2016 | 4 | #675 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Tammy?
- In the etymology graph, Tami, Tammie and Tamar are forms of the same name in other languages; Tamia is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Tamara and Tamera.
- What does the name Tammy mean, and where does it come from?
- A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- In which country does Tammy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 million people named Tammy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tammy.
- How common is the name Tammy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 277,310 people named Tammy in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Tammy compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Tammy is the 71st most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Tammy?
- A machine transcription gives /tami/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tammyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tammy” — the 71st most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.