Given name & surname
Tammi
Tammi is a feminine given name. It is used in English and Finnish.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tammi isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tammi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13,884
- 0 boys · 13,884 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 873 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 873 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,201 as a first name in 2020; 116 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tammi’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Tammi as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Estonian form TAMM. In English usage, Tammi has a related form in Tammy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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 Tammi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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