Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1942. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tami through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38,017
- 90 boys · 37,927 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 2,746 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,813 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,813 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 2,741 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 32,380 as a first name in 2020; 183 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tami’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Tami is a diminutive of Tamara. In Greek usage, Tami as a surname is a transliteration of Τάμη. Tami has a related form in Tamara.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tami has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Japanese roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tami
- Tami KiuruFinnish ski jumperborn 1976
- Tami StronachAmerican choreographerborn 1972
- Tami ErinAmerican actress, model, singer, and fashion designerborn 1974
- Tami ChynnJamaican singer, songwriter, dancerborn 1984
- Tami HoagAmerican writerborn 1959
- Tami RomanAmerican television personality (born 1970)
- Tami FarrellMiss Teen USA 2003, succeeded Carrie Prejean as Miss California USA 2009born 1984
- Tami Laneprosthetic makeup artistborn 1974
- Tami GrendeIndonesian tennis playerborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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