How Many People Are Named Tami?

34,071

people named Tami are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 10,031 people in the US has this name

Based on 38,017 babies named Tami in Social Security records from 1942 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,180

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#622

See the top 100

Peak Year

1959

2,746 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: TAM-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of TAMMY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Tami in English. Counting Tami and these spellings together, about 379,237 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Tami (99.8%) were girls. The share of girls among babies named Tami rose from 88.9% in the 1940s to 100% in the 2000s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Tami alive today is about 57 years old, and 53% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 52 and 64 in 2025.

Under 30 413
1.2%
30 to 59 18,000
52.8%
60 and over 15,657
46%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Tami first appears in the records in 1942 and was given most often in 1959, to 2,746 babies. In 2025, 12 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1942 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Tami has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #154, in 1959. In 2025 it ranked #8,811.

Girls
Rank in 2025#8,811
Best rank#154 (1959)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#190 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Tami alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Tami were born in California than in any other state: about 4,976 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tami was given 3.5 times as often in Oregon, 3.4 times in Washington and 3.3 times in Montana.

California 4,976
Ohio 2,164
Washington 1,632
Texas 1,542
Pennsylvania 1,507
Illinois 1,502
New York 1,488
Michigan 1,378
Wisconsin 1,224
Minnesota 1,127
Iowa 1,056
Oregon 1,005
Florida 960
Indiana 806
Nebraska 612
Utah 580
Colorado 538
Missouri 501
New Jersey 484
Oklahoma 479
Kansas 436
Arizona 420
Georgia 414
Massachusetts 399
North Carolina 355
Montana 334
Idaho 328
Alabama 305
Kentucky 288
Tennessee 280
Virginia 274
North Dakota 273
Louisiana 260
South Dakota 238
Maryland 237
South Carolina 217
Connecticut 209
Arkansas 203
West Virginia 185
New Mexico 148
Nevada 141
Mississippi 130
Maine 98
Wyoming 74
Hawaii 69
New Hampshire 66
District of Columbia 62
Alaska 48
Rhode Island 45
Vermont 16
Delaware 5

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