Tammy (given name)
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Tammy is a feminine given name. It can be a short form of the names Taimur, Tamsin, Thomasina
, or Tamara
. Tamsin and Thomasina
are feminine versions of the name Thomas
, a Greek
form of the Aramaic
name Te'oma, meaning twin
. Tamara is a Russian
form of the Hebrew
name Tamar
, which means "palm tree." The name was popularized by a film series made in the 1950s and 1960s about a lovable backwoods girl named Tammy Tyree..
Tammy was most popular as a girl's name in the United States
in the 1950s, when it was the 140th most popular name given to girls, in the 1960s, when it was the 13th most popular name for girls; and in the 1970s, when it was the 23rd most popular name for girls. It remained well used throughout the 1980s and into the mid-1990s. It has not been ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States since 1998. It was the 75th most common name for all females in the United States in the 1990 census. It was ranked as the 959th most popular name for boys born between 1960 and 1969 in the United States, but has not appeared among the top 1,000 names for boys there since the 1960s.
Thomasina
Thomasina or Thomasine is the feminine form of the given name Thomas, which means "twin".Thomasina is often shortened to Tamsin. Tamsin can be used as a name in itself; variants of Tamsin include Tamsyn, Tamzin, Tamsen, Tammi and Tamasin. Although Aramaic in origin, the version "Tamsin" is...
, or Tamara
Tamara (name)
Tamara is a female given name in various languages. In Arabic, Georgian, Hebrew, Russian and other Slavic languages, Italian, Armenian and other European languages, Tamara is derived from the Biblical name "Tamar", meaning palm tree. The name also occurs in Sanskrit meaning spice...
. Tamsin and Thomasina
Thomasina
Thomasina or Thomasine is the feminine form of the given name Thomas, which means "twin".Thomasina is often shortened to Tamsin. Tamsin can be used as a name in itself; variants of Tamsin include Tamsyn, Tamzin, Tamsen, Tammi and Tamasin. Although Aramaic in origin, the version "Tamsin" is...
are feminine versions of the name Thomas
Thomas (name)
Thomas is a masculine given name. It is based on the Biblical Greek , which is itself a transcription of the Aramaic "twin", the Hebrew cognate being...
, a Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
form of the Aramaic
Aramaic language
Aramaic is a group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic language phylum. The name of the language is based on the name of Aram, an ancient region in central Syria. Within this family, Aramaic belongs to the Semitic family, and more specifically, is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily,...
name Te'oma, meaning twin
Twin
A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...
. Tamara is a Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
form of the Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
name Tamar
Tamar (name)
Tamar is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning "date" , "date palm" or just "palm tree". There are two characters in the Bible with this name, see Tamar . Variants include "Tamara" and "Tamera"...
, which means "palm tree." The name was popularized by a film series made in the 1950s and 1960s about a lovable backwoods girl named Tammy Tyree..
Tammy was most popular as a girl's name in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in the 1950s, when it was the 140th most popular name given to girls, in the 1960s, when it was the 13th most popular name for girls; and in the 1970s, when it was the 23rd most popular name for girls. It remained well used throughout the 1980s and into the mid-1990s. It has not been ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States since 1998. It was the 75th most common name for all females in the United States in the 1990 census. It was ranked as the 959th most popular name for boys born between 1960 and 1969 in the United States, but has not appeared among the top 1,000 names for boys there since the 1960s.