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Tamara
Pronounced /təˈmɑɹə/
Rank in 2024
#1,748
Born in 2024
115
Peak year
1970 · #79
Origin
Hebrew
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 115 girls were named Tamara, about 1 in every 14,028.
- It peaked in 1970 with 4,721 babies, ranked #79.
- It first shows up in the records in 1917.
- 131,170 girls have been named Tamara since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Tamara per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.9Boomers1946–64
- 2.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 21 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 1,317 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 33,448 babies, 0.93 per 1,000. Gen X: 59,888 babies, 2.34 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,560 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,312 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,624 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára), name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר (tāmār, “date palm”).
- A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /təˈmɑɹə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Tamara, CC BY-SA 4.0.