Tamm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tamm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Either person from Tamm or Thamm in Germany, or from the medieval German personal name Tamm, a shortened form of Tancmar 'thought-famous'.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 58K
- USUnited States≈1 in 74K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either person from Tamm or Thamm in Germany, or from the medieval German personal name Tamm, a shortened form of Tancmar 'thought-famous'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Tamm | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 723 | Tamm | 205 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 38 | Tamm | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Tamm | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Tamm | 38 |
| IE Ireland | #844 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Tamm | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Tamm | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Tamm | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 2.7K | Tamm | 52 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tamm is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Igor Yevgenyevich, Soviet physicist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In kw, bit, fragment, piece
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In acy, to end, to complete
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, oak (tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, crumb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Franz Werner Tammb. 1658DEGerman painter and botanical illustrator (1658-1724)
- Alfhild Tammb. 1876SESwedish physician
- Fabian Tammb. 1879SESwedish admiral and commander of the navy
- Elisabeth Tammb. 1880SESwedish politician
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tammb. 1895RUSoviet physicist (1895–1971)
- Mary Tammb. 1950GBBritish actress of Estonian origin (1950-2012)
- Jüri Tammb. 1957EEEstonian athletics competitor, sportsperson and politician (1957–2021)
- Katariina Untb. 1971EEnot in their usual nameEstonian actor (born 1971)
- Riin Tammb. 1981EEEstonian geneticist (born 1981)
- Joonas Tammb. 1992EEEstonian association football player (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tamm mean, and where does it come from?
- Either person from Tamm or Thamm in Germany, or from the medieval German personal name Tamm, a shortened form of Tancmar 'thought-famous'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Tamm a male or female name?
- Tamm is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tamm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Tamm in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamm.
- How common is the name Tamm?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45,000 people in China have Tamm as their first given name, about 1 in 31 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Tamm compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Tamm is the 844th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tamm?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tammThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tamm” — the 844th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.