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Tam - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Tam
 
 

 


The boy name Tam [ 1 syll. tam, ta-m ] is pronounced TAEM KEY. Tam's language of origin is Aramaic and it is used mainly in the Scottish language. Tam is a short form of the English, French, German, and Scandinavian Thomas.

Tam is rarely used as a baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Tam, the English, French, German, and Scandinavian Thomas was the most commonly used in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Tam include the Dutch and English Thom, the English and German Tim, the English Timm, the English, French, and German Tom, the English Tone, the Scottish Tammy, the Finnish Tauno, the Finnish Teemu, the Dutch Tijn, the German Tillmann, the English Timmy, the Finnish and Italian Timo, the German and Hungarian Timon, the Italian Tino, the English Tommy, the English Toney, the Finnish and German Toni, the English Tony, the Spanish Toño, the Hungarian Tóni, the Finnish Tuomo, the Italian Timeo, the Italian and Spanish Tonio, the Scottish Tòmachan, and the Russian Tyoma.

KEY: English pronunciation for Tam: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)"


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