Tammiku, Lääne-Nigula ParishTammiku is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western Estonia.NameTammiku appears in written records in 1795 as farm-name modifiers in Tam̄iko Andrus and Tam̄iko Tönnis, referring two men that lived in the village, which was previously known as Nurme. The name Nurme was later replaced by the farm name Tammiku. The name comes from the common noun tammik 'oak forest', referring to the local vegetation.