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Tamir

#1,821 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Tamir has been given to 2,460 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,821 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Tamir, 2025

1 in 37,700

Tamir over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamir means

Tamir has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Tamir

One of the source’s documented entries for Tamir records a meaning of tall.

One of the source’s documented entries for Tamir records a meaning of date (fruit).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,401 boys were recorded with the name Tamir between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,502 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,502 in 2020 to #1,821 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,208 in 2015 to #1,821 in 2025.

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Tamir between 1998 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2005; its best national rank was #11,026 in 1998.

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.

How common is Tamir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,821
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamir was born before 2009 — so the typical Tamir is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,401
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (589).

Is Tamir 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
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−319
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+387
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.9%
Peak was 2020 (113)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,502
2020

Spellings of Tamir

Tamir is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 20.1% against Tamir's 0.54%.

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 Tamir is used

Across 2016–2025, Tamir was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 22,058 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3Illinois1 in 12,500
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Maryland1 in 16,667
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Tamir around the world

Where Tamir 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
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2000–2019
    #5,044
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1984–2007
    #680
    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.

Notable people named Tamir

People whose public names include Tamir, 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.

Tamir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,821
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 319
Best rank ever
#1,502
2020
Peak year
2020
113 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,401
Count in 2025
88

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,026
1998
Peak year
2005
9 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamir

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

TamerTamimAamirZymirTymirDamirAhmirTammyDemirZamirRamirKymirNamirTamarYamirTamJahmirShamirTameemTamariJamirSymirSamirLamir

Names with a curve like Tamir

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

IssaAharonSirShalomGiorgioNaimLisandroArenNiallAdnanArisSimcha

Sibling names for Tamir

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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