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Tamara

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~122,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#1,808 among girls
Births in 2025
111 131,703 since 1880
Typical age
52 years, median

Tamara popularity over time

Tamara rank by birth year, 1917–2025Tamara ranked #4,083 in 1917 and #1,808 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #63, in 1974.#100#1,000#1,808best #63 in 1974192019401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1917–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1970: 4,733 births recorded as Tamara. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1917. Across the record, 12 years put Tamara in the top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #1,808, with 111 births that year. Over ten years the count has fallen 39%. It slipped 55 places against the previous year.

Babies named Tamara per yearPeaks at 4,733 births in 1970.4,733 in 19700192019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Tamara?

An estimated 122,100 living Americans are called Tamara. That is out of 131,703 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Tamara?

Half of living Tamaras are older than 52, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1960s. By the site’s era rules that makes Tamara a late 20th-century name.

Your Tamara

Ages of living people named TamaraHalf of living Tamaras are older than 52 and half younger.median 52020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Tamara is most common

New Jersey uses the name 2.2× as often as the country as a whole. Florida and New York follow.

Where Tamara is used more than average3 states use the name Tamara more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.7× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 2.2× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 1.7× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Tamara is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Jersey 58 2.2×
Florida 107 1.7×
New York 103 1.7×

Tamara in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Tamara ranked #894 in 2025 on 39 births.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Tamara comes from

Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра, name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר (“date palm”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Tamara

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Tamara de Lempicka Polish painter 1898–1980 55
Tamara Karsavina Russian ballet dancer 1885–1978 54
Tamara Todevska Macedonian singer 1985 41
Tamara Smirnova Russian astronomer 1935–2001 37
Tamara Press Soviet track-and-field athlete 1937–2021 35
Tamara E. Jernigan astronaut 1959 31
Tamara Bykova Soviet high jumper 1958 30
Tamara Taylor Canadian actress 1970 30
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 728 in 1956 to 1,851 in 1957 — 2.5 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Tamara

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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