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Tamera

#6,800 in 2025Girls' name

Date palm, through Tamara

Tamera has been given to 14,282 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #6,800 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 614 recorded.

Babies named Tamera, 2025

1 in 195,000

Tamera over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamera: meaning, origin, and history

Date palm, through Tamara

Hebrew

What Tamera means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Tamera is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tamara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,282 girls were recorded with the name Tamera between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 614 in 1959; its best national rank was #381 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,054 in 2020 to #6,800 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,427 in 2015 to #6,800 in 2025.

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 Tamera?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,800
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamera 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tameras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamera was born before 1970 — so the typical Tamera is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
14,119
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Choose a decade

1960s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (5,260).

Is Tamera 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
+757
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−746
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,373
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.8%
Peak was 1959 (614)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#381
1959

Spellings of Tamera

Tamera is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 49.4% against Tamera's 1.2%.

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 Tamera is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamera was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 14,378 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 4,348
  2. 2Idaho1 in 5,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 5,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 6,667
  5. 5Indiana1 in 7,143
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 7,143
  7. 7South Dakota1 in 7,143
  8. 8Iowa1 in 7,692

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. Tamera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tamera around the world

Where Tamera 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
    1996–2019
    #4,001
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2001–2001
    #606
    in 2001
  • France
    2001–2014
    #7,548
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1992–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1962–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tamera

People whose public names include Tamera, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tamera in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tamera. Linked forms have their own page here.

TamraTamaraTamiraTamyra

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tamera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 746
Best rank ever
#381
1959
Peak year
1959
614 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,282
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Tamera

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

TammeraTamiaTammieTamekaTamarTamikaTamyraTamelaTammiTamraTamiyaTamaraCieraTamyaKieraTamiAmeeraTamikoTamalaTamariTamiraTamiyahTamicaMeera

Names with a curve like Tamera

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tamera, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DeirdreSuzetteDeannDanetteDeanneDeenaMarybethLorieGenaKarynKrisFelecia

Sibling names for Tamera

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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