The name Tamara is of Hebrew origin, and means palm tree.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Tamara has been given to baby girls in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Tamara
Use of the Name Tamara for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
126,587
121,521
35,035
7,778
3,157
1,067
496
The table below indicates the number of times the name Tamara has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Tamara first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1939, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Tamara
Used as a Girl Name
Used as a Boy Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1939
876
65
1940
515
179
1941
589
142
1942
649
133
1943
586
166
1944
522
194
1945
527
192
1946
440
306
1947
420
375
1948
441
325
1949
417
353
1950
406
387
1951
375
471
1952
357
535
1953
346
581
1954
328
662
1955
329
669
1956
323
729
1957
191
1,845
1958
127
3,403
1959
121
3,799
1960
125
3,664
1961
125
3,724
1962
119
3,821
1963
111
3,979
1964
108
3,804
1965
105
3,556
1966
98
3,481
1967
86
4,004
1968
80
4,306
1969
78
4,652
1970
79
4,719
1971
80
4,481
1972
84
3,534
1973
66
4,280
1974
63
4,523
1975
77
3,622
1976
91
3,087
1977
93
3,120
1978
105
2,797
1979
104
2,887
1980
108
2,807
1981
115
2,647
1982
129
2,359
1983
131
2,278
1984
125
2,280
1985
148
1,992
1986
134
2,100
1987
160
1,731
1988
183
1,528
1989
186
1,485
1990
209
1,376
1991
224
1,263
1992
223
1,266
1993
269
1,016
1994
246
1,129
1995
258
1,070
1996
287
1,003
1997
314
931
1998
336
873
1999
383
744
2000
416
676
2001
444
623
2002
374
791
2003
498
571
2004
570
496
Totals:
126,587
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Tamara as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a boy's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Tamara appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 66 times during the last 125 years.