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Tamiko vs Tammie

American parents have registered 35,514 Tammies since 1880, against 3,043 Tamikos. Tammie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tamiko against Tammie, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tamiko Tammie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 86 years in which either name was published, Tammie for 78 years and Tamiko for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tamiko Tammie
Total US births 3,04335,514
Most in one year 5032,257
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 2,80032,000
Median age today 5058
Peak year 19751963
Best rank 415th girls172nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19171927
Girls / boys 3,001 / 4235,380 / 134

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tammies alive today are over 58; half the Tamikos are over 50. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tamiko and Tammie.