Tammie

About Tammie

Tammie is an English familiar form with more than one longer-name history. In the Tamara family it leads to Hebrew “date palm”; through Tamsin, it leads to Aramaic “twin.” Pilot Tammie Jo Shults and performer Tammie Brown give the spelling distinctive contemporary associations.

Two longer-name families

Tammie is a spelling variant of Tammy. Both can shorten Tamara, whose history reaches back to the Hebrew name Tamar, meaning “date palm.”

They can also shorten Tamsin, a medieval contraction of Thomasina. Thomasina is the feminine form of Thomas, from an Aramaic word meaning “twin.” This is a separate route from Tamar.

Tammy has additionally been used for other names beginning with Tam. The meaning therefore depends on which longer name lies behind the familiar form.

Tami and Tammi are close spelling relatives. All preserve the brief opening and final vowel, while the ending -ie gives Tammie the appearance of a familiar English nickname.

Pronunciation

Tammie is pronounced TAM-ee, with two syllables and stress on the first. It rhymes with Sammy.

Tamara and Tamsin have different full rhythms, but both can produce this same compact form. Tammie also appears as a registered name in its own right, including within the compound first name Tammie Jo.

Tammie Jo Shults and aviation

Shults was captain of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 on April 17, 2018, when an engine failure caused rapid decompression. She and first officer Darren Ellisor brought the aircraft to an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

The accident killed a passenger, making the event a tragedy as well as an example of a flight crew managing a severely damaged aircraft. Their later account described the work they shared in the cockpit.

Shults had previously served as a United States Navy aviator. That earlier experience formed part of the professional background she brought to commercial flying.

Her story gives Tammie an association with aviation that rests on a particular, well-documented event and a longer flying career.

Tammie Brown and performance

Tammie Brown is the stage name of Keith Glen Schubert, a drag performer and recording artist. Brown appeared in the first seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its All Stars series.

The performance career extends beyond competition television. Brown released the album Popcorn in 2009 and has also developed visual artwork.

One continuing project, Rag Queens, transforms used nylon stockings and other materials into small figures. That combination of music, costume, and handmade objects gives the adopted name a place across several forms of performance and art.

American popularity

Tammie's largest United States girls' count came in 1963, with 2,246 births. Its strongest ranking was #160 in 1968, when 2,063 girls received it.

The count fell to twenty-five girls in 2000 and eleven in 2010. In 2025, six girls were recorded as Tammie, placing its main American popularity in the mid-twentieth century.

How popular is Tammie?

In 2025, Tammie ranked #14,752 among girls in the United States, with 6 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1927; its largest annual count was 2,246 in 1963. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.