Entry № 10306 · English origin

Tammy Tammy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAM-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Palm tree (Tammy Faye Bakker; Tammy Duckworth, US Senator)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "palm tree (tammy faye bakker; tammy duckworth, us senator)".

Tammy is a diminutive of Tamar — from the Hebrew Tamar ("palm tree").

Palm tree (Tammy Faye Bakker; Tammy Duckworth, US Senator) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Tammy
Transliteration
Tammy
Pronunciation
/ ˈtæm.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tammy stands.

Tammy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tammys before her.

Real people
Tammy Duckworth
US Senator from Illinois.
born 1968
Tammy Baldwin
First lesbian US Senator.
born 1962
Tammy Faye Bakker
American televangelist.
1942 – 2007
In fiction
Tammy
Tammy and the Bachelor.
1957

Names connected to Tammy.

The number behind Tammy.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tammy reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.