Tammy

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tammy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tammy: Recorded since 1969, it reached #57 in 1977, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
92times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#57highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#364
1997	#418
1998	#514
1999	#529
2000	#645
2001	#584
2002	#702
2003	#637
2004	#687
2005	#866
2006	#835
2007	#1160
2008	#1019
2009	#1171
2010	#1901
2011	#1665
2012	#1991
2013	#2649
2014	#2058
2015	#1961
2016	#3609
2017	#3229
2019	#2869
2020	#5493
2021	#5581
2022	#5669
2023	#3598
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 42 of the 44 years from 1971 to 2014.

In 2014: #584 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2058 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1969–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #95 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1969–1981
Highest recorded position: #57 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1977 (recorded 1969–1981).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Tammy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, with 42 ranked years and 349 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1969.

Tammy across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tammy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#466 (1971)	#242 (1993)	#584 (2014)	42 of 44	349 (1971–2014)	16 (1979)
England and Wales · Girls	#364 (1996)	#364 (1996)	#4192 (2024)	28 of 29	751 (1996–2024)	92 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#95 (1969)	#57 (1977)	#79 (1981)	13 of 13	1,661 (1969–1981)	156 (1974)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#186 (1997)	#174 (1998)	#439 (2008)	9 of 12	48 (1997–2008)	10 (1997)

Tammy by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tammy in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	67	9 of 10	7
1980sbusiest	110	10 of 10	11
1990s	93	10 of 10	9
2000s	63	10 of 10	6
2010s	16	3 of 10	5

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Tammy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #57 in New South Wales, Australia in 1977.

Tammy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1665	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1171	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1019	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1160	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#835	36	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#687	42	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#637	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#702	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#584	46	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#645	39	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#529	54	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#514	53	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#418	73	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#364	92	High	Verified
1981	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	98	Insufficient	Not yet available
1980	New South Wales, Australia	female	#75	104	Insufficient	Not yet available
1979	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	130	Insufficient	Not yet available
1977	New South Wales, Australia	female	#57	142	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	141	Insufficient	Not yet available
1975	New South Wales, Australia	female	#60	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	156	Insufficient	Not yet available
1973	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	155	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	149	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	123	Insufficient	Not yet available
1970	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	116	Insufficient	Not yet available
1969	New South Wales, Australia	female	#95	88	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#238	6	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#248	5	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#339	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#282	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#291	4	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#174	10	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#186	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#403	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#267	13	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#400	6	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#355	6	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#346	8	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#295	10	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#451	4	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	8	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#242	15	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#249	15	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	12	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	8	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#285	11	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	9	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	13	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	9	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#292	11	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#252	15	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#365	7	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	12	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#335	9	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#283	14	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#261	16	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	14	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#343	7	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	5	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	6	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1969 and 2024, ranked in 55 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #57, first reached in 1977.

It held a top-100 place in 13 years, 13 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 156 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1974.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1971, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Tamira · #2189, 19y
Tammie · #343, 16y
Tamsin · #271, 29y
Tamsyn · #1036, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Catriona · #58, 60y
Orlaith · #54, 59y
Ruairi · #54, 59y
Jacinta · #53, 57y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Gabriella · #57, 46y
Kamilla · #57, 56y
Antony · #56, 46y
Bendik · #56, 58y

Tammy was ranked #57 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1977. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tammy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tammy without appearing here.

Tammy moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #4843.
Kerry Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #4843.
Kirsten Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #4056.
Barbara Compare
In 2013 they stood at #695 and #393 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #584 and #876.

Moved ahead of Tammy

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #1939.
Mona Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2042.
Susan Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #3151 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2042.
Francis Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2449.

Moved the opposite way to Tammy

Abigail Compare
Between 1972 and 2014 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Tammy went from #352 to #584 while Abigail went from #332 to #55.
Hayley Compare
Between 1972 and 2014 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Tammy went from #352 to #584 while Hayley went from #471 to #203.
Sadie Compare
Between 1972 and 2014 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Tammy went from #352 to #584 while Sadie went from #471 to #39.
Sophie Compare
Between 1972 and 2014 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Tammy went from #352 to #584 while Sophie went from #300 to #2.

Moved the same way as Tammy

Ingrid Compare
Between 1971 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Tammy went from #466 to #695 and Ingrid from #189 to #798.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tammy went from #364 to #4192 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tammy went from #364 to #4192 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tammy went from #364 to #4192 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #57 in New South Wales, Australia in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tammy

Tammy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tammy across 4 official records

Tammy by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Tammy appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Tammy and the names beside it

Tammy moved ahead of

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Tammy at a glance

Tammy across 4 official records

Tammy by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Tammy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Tammy

Tammy and the names beside it

Tammy moved ahead of

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