Tami
Tami is a usually feminine given name and nickname. Notable people with the name include:
- English
Meaning & Origin of Tami
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tami is a usually feminine given name and nickname. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Tami
Tami first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1942, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1959: 2,741 births, good for #154 nationwide. About 49% of every Tami on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Tami last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 38K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Tami
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Names that sound like Tami
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About the name Tami
Tami is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1942 and has accumulated 38K births in the dataset. Tami's peak popularity came in 1959 when it ranked #154. Use the chart and map above to compare Tami's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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