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Thamar

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Form of Tamar

Thamar has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1998, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Thamar, 2014

1 in 741,000

Thamar over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Thamar over time

In 2014, Thamar went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19792014

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Thamar: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tamar

Hebrew

What Thamar means

Thamar is a form of Tamar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Thamar is used in Biblical Greek and Biblical Latin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Thamar → Tamar. The family’s meaning is “date palm, date”, recorded in English.

Origin, language, and formation

Thamar is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tamar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Thamar is pronounced /ˈθeɪmə(ɹ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Thamar between 1979 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1998; its best national rank was #9,023 in 1981.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Thamar between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1982; its best national rank was #7,273 in 1982.

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 Thamar?

Thamar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thamar 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thamar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thamars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thamar was born before 1992 — so the typical Thamar is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Thamar 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 1998 (9)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,023
1981

Spellings of Thamar

Thamar is not the most common spelling — Tamara is, with 83.2% against Thamar's 0.05%.

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.

Thamar around the world

Where Thamar 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
    1978–1978
    #2,631
    in 1978

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Thamar 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
#9,023
1981
Peak year
1998
9 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,273
1982
Peak year
1982
5 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thamar

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

ThanviThaleiaThailynThayerThailaThaylaThalyaThailyThamaraThanvikaThaliyahTharonThandiThalianaTharaThanaThainaThanyaLarimarThaizThannaThashaDhamarThaliah

Sibling names for Thamar

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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