Given name & surname

Tame

Tame is a surname from Middle English. It is used in English and Māori.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Tame comes from Middle English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Middle English tame.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tame’s family of names

In Māori usage, Tame has a conventional equivalent in the English form Tom. In Japanese usage, Tame as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ため.

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TameためTom

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 1

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Sibling ideas

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