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Tamra

Girls' name

Form of Tamara

Tamra has been given to 13,715 babies in the U.S. since 1937. 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 1959, with 824 recorded.

Babies named Tamra, 2019

1 in 694,000

Tamra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamra: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tamara

Hebrew

What Tamra means

Tamra is a form of Tamara.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tamra is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtæm.ɹə/ for Tamra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tamra → Tamara. The family’s meaning is “date palm”, recorded in English with the source elements tāmār.

Origin, language, and formation

Tamra 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, 13,710 girls were recorded with the name Tamra between 1937 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 824 in 1959; its best national rank was #327 in 1959.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Tamra between 1968 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1968; its best national rank was #4,673 in 1968.

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 Tamra?

Tamra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamra 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamra was born before 1969 — so the typical Tamra is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
13,364
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (4,739).

Is Tamra 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (824)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#327
1959

Spellings of Tamra

Tamra is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 26.9% against Tamra'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 Tamra is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamra was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 15,017 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 100,000).

142 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,381
  2. 2Idaho1 in 4,545
  3. 3Kansas1 in 6,250
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 6,667
  5. 5Oregon1 in 6,667
  6. 6South Dakota1 in 6,667
  7. 7Washington1 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. Tamra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tamra around the world

Where Tamra 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
    2005–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1958–2015
    #7,744
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1956–2000
    #510
    in 2000

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 Tamra

People whose public names include Tamra, 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.

Tamra in other languages

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

TamaraTameraTamiraTamyra

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

Tamra 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
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Best rank ever
#327
1959
Peak year
1959
824 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
13,710
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,673
1968
Peak year
1968
5 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamra

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

TamiaTameraTamarTammiTammraTamyaTammieTamiTamekaTamikaTamyraTamelaTamieTamiyaTamaraTammyTamikoTamalaTamariTamiraTamiyahTamicaTambraTam

Names with a curve like Tamra

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

DeenaKarynFeleciaGenaDeirdreCarynDeidreRenaeKimberleeValarieDeannShellie

Sibling names for Tamra

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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