Tandy

Last seen for girls in 2001 at #15,352 · Last seen for boys in 2007 at #12,367
Given to girls 62.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
1966 · 49 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,165
since 1945

Tandy over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201899peak #1,600, 1966peak #661, 1899girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
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2007#12,3675
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2001#15,3525
2000#15,0315
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1994#13,4305
1993#7,49811
1992#6,00815#8,4355
1991#7,43011#6,5197
1990#7,88010
1989#5,83614
1988#5,89513
1987#7,3539
1986#4,96415
1985#5,34813#5,1477
1984#3,99019#4,9737
1983#3,80620#5,4846
1982#4,71615#6,3855
1981#2,72333#4,5098
1980#3,13427#5,5256
1979#2,21844#4,0689
1978#1,76558#3,8579
1977#2,21641#5,1236
1976#1,84050#3,47110
1975#4,14115
1974#2,61628#3,5589
1973#2,22335#2,71613
1972#2,59827#4,4416
1971#2,03541#2,20318
1970#2,35432#3,2829
1969#2,45428#3,3148
1968#2,02435#3,1078
1967#1,92137#3,9665
1966#1,60049#3,5376
1965#1,95035#1,85618
1964#1,61050#4,0395
1963#2,17230#1,79220
1962#1,98934#2,67310
1961#2,00434#1,87619
1960#2,64921#2,53511
1959#2,23426#2,29513
1958#2,86217#1,72421
1957#3,30913#1,88718
1956#3,04815#2,36112
1955#2,47220#2,55810
1954#3,15713#2,20713
1953#1,97327#2,53110
1952#3,7969#2,51410
1951#4,0118#3,0667
1950#3,9628#2,11113
1949#3,17611#2,45310
1948#2,82813#2,21812
1947#3,7069#2,49810
1946#3,9947#2,5349
1945#4,5565#2,24210
1944#2,4679
1943#2,27711
1942#2,38610
1941#2,20711
1940#3,4595
1939#2,8297
1938#2,08412
1937
1936
1935#2,24611
1934#2,12112
1933#3,6425
1932#3,3616
1931#3,7635
1930#3,2897
1929#2,9808
1928#3,6976
1927#2,9129
1926#4,2015
1925#2,58811
1924#3,8676
1923#3,1758
1922#2,80110
1921#2,26514
1920#2,45912
1919#3,1158
1918#2,39812
1917#2,7329
1916#3,5166
1915#2,45810
1914#2,6517
1913#2,0928
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1899#66110
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1887#9215
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1883#7996
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First appearance
1945

The first year at least five girls were named Tandy! It came in at #4,556, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1994–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Tandy
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2001
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1945
  • Peaked 1966 at #1,600 (49 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 26,411
  • Highest: 1 in 26,411 girls born in 1978 were named Tandy (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 360,125 girls born in 2001 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,600 in 1966, was only 1 in 34,534 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 31.8% of all girls named Tandy (371) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2007
  • Mostly girls until 2006, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s45#2,828 (1948)#3,652
1950s156#1,973 (1953)#3,082
1960s353#1,600 (1966)#2,037
1970s371#1,765 (1978)#2,401
1980s178#2,723 (1981)#4,777
1990s52#6,008 (1992)#8,449
2000s10#15,031 (2000)#15,192

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tandy in 1899

boys
#661
10 births · 1 in 10,621 boys

Top boys' names in 1899

  1. #1John6,990
  2. #2William6,086
  3. #3James4,597
  4. #4George4,018
  5. #5Charles3,147
  6. #6Joseph2,679
  7. #7Robert2,609
  8. #8Frank2,550
  9. #9Edward1,901
  10. #10Henry1,831
  11. #661Tandy10
More about 1899

boys

106,211 boys got a published name in 1899; 1 in 10,621 of them was named Tandy, which outranked 44.9% of the 1,200 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tandy
  1. #613Travis11
  2. #613Vester11
  3. #613Wilford11
  4. #661Tandy10
  5. #661Adelbert10
  6. #661Alvah10
  7. #661Arvid10
  8. #714Addie9
  9. #714Alden9
  10. #714Alfredo9

Tied with 52 names at #661; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1898
Risers
  1. 640Rogers#1,121#481
  2. 600Edna#1,121#521
  3. 545Giles#1,002#457
  4. 508Sarah#1,121#613
  5. 461Thaddeus#885#424
Fallers
  1. 566Jason#485#1,051
  2. 564Fitzhugh#364#928
  3. 508Oran#543#1,051
  4. 493Wilber#435#928
  5. 443Hosea#485#928

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1899