Tamara
About Tamara
Adding a final a to Tamar lends it a more sensual Slavic tone, making it a more popular choice than the original.
Pronounced TAM-uh-ruh.
As of October 2026, Tamara ranked #1816 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #64 in 1974.
Editor's take: The name Tamara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "date palm tree".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,381 | 168 | 94 |
| 2015 | #1,314 | 181 | 101.4 |
| 2016 | #1,490 | 154 | 86.9 |
| 2017 | #1,561 | 141 | 81.7 |
| 2018 | #1,797 | 114 | 67 |
| 2019 | #1,698 | 124 | 73.9 |
| 2020 | #1,839 | 107 | 66.2 |
| 2021 | #1,908 | 104 | 63.4 |
| 2022 | #1,739 | 120 | 73.2 |
| 2023 | #1,848 | 109 | 67.9 |
| 2024 | #1,757 | 115 | 71 |
| 2025 | #1,816 | 111 | 69.1 |
World rankings
Similar names
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- Regina
- Adrianne
- Angeline
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- Sonia
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- Rosemarie
- Kirsty
- Nicola
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- Yvonne
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- Felicia
- Monique
Tamara on lists
Famous Tamaras
- Tamara the Great
medieval Georgian ruler
- Tamara Braun
American actress
- Tamara Feldman
American actress
- Tamara de Lempicka
Polish artist
- Tamara Karsavina
Russian ballerina
- Tamara McKinney
American skier
- Tamara Baldwin
daughter of Led Zeppelin rocker John Paul Jones
- Tamara Filipovic
Serbian singer
- Tamara Ecclestone
British/Croatian TV personality
- Tamara Buciuceanu
Romanian actress
- Tamara Taylor
Canadian actress
- Tamara Jenkins
American screenwriter, actress and director
- Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli
Georgian singer
- Tamara Gee (Tamara Diane Timmer
Gołębiewska) aka Isis Gee, American,Polish singer
- Charlie Tamara Tulip O'Connell
daughter of American actor Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn
Tamara in pop culture
- "Tamara Drewe
" comic strip by Posy Simmonds and 2010 film
- Tamara Kaplan
character on MTV's "Awkward."
- Tamara Donner
character in "The Sims 3" computer game
- Tamara "Tammy" Swanson aka Tammy Zero
Ron Swanson's mother on TV's "Parks and Recreation"
- Tamara Roxanne Hatcher
character in Judy Blume's "Fudge" series
- "Tamara"
2005 horror movie
- Tamara Riley
main character in titular film "Tamara"