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Tamyra

#13,055 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tamyra has been given to 2,274 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #13,055 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Tamyra, 2025

1 in 474,000

Tamyra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamyra: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tamyra means

Tamyra is a given name.

The naming story behind Tamyra

Wikidata records Tamyra as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q105532447, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,274 girls were recorded with the name Tamyra between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,405 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,177 in 2020 to #13,055 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,962 in 2015 to #13,055 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.

How common is Tamyra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,055
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamyra 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamyra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamyras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamyra was born before 1993 — so the typical Tamyra is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (722).

Is Tamyra 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,878
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,093
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.7%
Peak was 2003 (122)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,405
1959

Spellings of Tamyra

Tamyra is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 20.7% against Tamyra's 0.27%.

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 Tamyra is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamyra was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 198,392 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

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

Tamyra around the world

Where Tamyra 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.

  • France
    2002–2006
    #5,206
    in 2006
  • Canada
    2002–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1975–1975
    #448
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). 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 Tamyra

People whose public names include Tamyra, 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.

Tamyra in other languages

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

MyraTamiAmyraTamraTamaraTameraTamira

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

Tamyra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,055
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,878
Best rank ever
#1,405
1959
Peak year
2003
122 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,274
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Tamyra

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

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Names with a curve like Tamyra

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

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Sibling names for Tamyra

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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