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Below is the link to today's column:
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-tammys-popularity-peaked-in-1968-but-the-name-is-now-rare-for-newborns/article_89f1f3c0-0804-11ef-a179-b7d5b07e3d83.html
I was surprised by the number of Tammys I found in both the United States and England during the early 19th century. In England the concentration of Tammys in Devon in the 1841 census was rather remarkable -- a couple of generations later British name experts were commenting on how Tamsin was now largely confined to Cornwall, which was already somewhat the case in 1841 -- and Tamsin seems to have mostly become Tammy in Devon then.
In the USA, as the column states, Tammy seems to have been as often from Tamar as from Tamsin in the early 19th century, but here I was surprised by the number of women I found in Ancestry.com in the early 19th century who seemed to be just "Tammy" in all records. Tammy was never common back then, but did occur often enough not to be completely "eccentric." I didn't expect to see Tammy in use as a full form quite that early.
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-tammys-popularity-peaked-in-1968-but-the-name-is-now-rare-for-newborns/article_89f1f3c0-0804-11ef-a179-b7d5b07e3d83.html
I was surprised by the number of Tammys I found in both the United States and England during the early 19th century. In England the concentration of Tammys in Devon in the 1841 census was rather remarkable -- a couple of generations later British name experts were commenting on how Tamsin was now largely confined to Cornwall, which was already somewhat the case in 1841 -- and Tamsin seems to have mostly become Tammy in Devon then.
In the USA, as the column states, Tammy seems to have been as often from Tamar as from Tamsin in the early 19th century, but here I was surprised by the number of women I found in Ancestry.com in the early 19th century who seemed to be just "Tammy" in all records. Tammy was never common back then, but did occur often enough not to be completely "eccentric." I didn't expect to see Tammy in use as a full form quite that early.
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