as a Last Name
- 869
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Tamm
Meaning & Origins
North German: 1. from a short form of the personal name Tancmar, composed of the Germanic thank ‘thought’ + māri, mēri ‘famous’. 2. habitational name from Tamm in southern Germany or Thamm, Damm(e) in northern Germany. The place names may derive from the personal name (see 1) or from Middle High German tam ‘dam’, ‘dike’.
| 29,696th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 869
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Michigan
- has the most people named Tamm per capita
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