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Tammie vs Tamora

American parents have registered 35,514 Tammies since 1880, against 677 Tamoras. Tammie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tammie Tamora

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 82 years in which either name was published, Tammie for 77 years and Tamora for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Tammie Tamora
Total US births 35,514677
Most in one year 2,25731
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 32,000620
Median age today 5854
Peak year 19631958
Best rank 172nd girls1,985th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19271957
Girls / boys 35,380 / 134677 / 0

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 Tamoras are over 54. That is 4 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: Tammie and Tamora.