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Tamio vs Tammie

American parents have registered 35,514 Tammies since 1880, against 13 Tamios. Tammie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tamio 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 81 years in which either name was published, Tammie for 79 years and Tamio for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tamio Tammie
Total US births 1335,514
Most in one year 72,257
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 032,000
Median age today 9658
Peak year 19251963
Best rank 3,408th boys172nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19251927
Girls / boys 0 / 1335,380 / 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 Tamios alive today are over 96; half the Tammies are over 58. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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