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Tamarah

Girls' name

Date palm, through Tamara

Tamarah has been given to 1,326 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Tamarah, 2021

1 in 678,000

Tamarah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamarah: meaning, origin, and history

Date palm, through Tamara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamarah means

Tamarah belongs to the name family reached through Tamarah → Tamara. Its meaning is “date palm”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tamarah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tamara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,326 girls were recorded with the name Tamarah between 1957 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1996; its best national rank was #2,019 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tamarah?

Tamarah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamarah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamarah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamarahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamarah was born before 1984 — so the typical Tamarah is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,326
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1980s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (304).

Is Tamarah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (38)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,019
1962

Spellings of Tamarah

Tamarah is not the most common spelling — Tamara is, with 45.4% against Tamarah's 0.46%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tamarah is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamarah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 716,000 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tamarah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tamarah around the world

Where Tamarah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    2004–2021
    #6,530
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1995–2005
    #2,024
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1965–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tamarah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,019
1962
Peak year
1996
38 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,326
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamarah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tamarah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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