Tamāra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tamar (Biblical figure)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tamāra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Georgia it is the 5th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 408(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 752
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tamāra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #447 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 554 (measured from records)
- 1 in 157 (inferred from the name graph)
128,711 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tamara in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 2 more, תמרה in UA Ukraine, LV Latvia, תמר in IL Israel and Tamar in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tamar (Biblical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamāra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #302 | 128,711 | 1 in 2.6K | 129K | Tamara | 554 |
| UA Ukraine | #608 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 752 | — | תמרה | 63 |
| BR Brazil | #547 | 44,519 | 1 in 4.8K | 49K | Tamara | 157 |
| AR Argentina | #270 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 52 | Tamara | 123 |
| ES Spain | #127 | 33,862 | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Tamara | 179 |
| GE Georgia | #5 | 28,673as თამარი | 1 in 139 | 29K | Tamar | 123 |
| MD Moldova | #385 | 21,415 | 1 in 157 | 21K | Tamara | 26 |
| IL Israel | #31 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | 506 | תמר | 117 |
| LV Latvia | #103 | 4,606 | 1 in 408 | 4.6K | תמרה | 19 |
128,711 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tamāra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tamara Karsavinab. 1885RURussian ballet dancer
- Tamara Khanumb. 1906UZUzbek dancer of Armenian heritage (1906-1991)
- Tamara Makarovab. 1907RUSoviet film actress, drama teacher (1907–1997)
- Tamara Tyshkevichb. 1931BYBelarusian shot putter (1931-1997)
- Tamara Smirnovab. 1935RURussian astronomer (1935-2001)
- Tamara Pressb. 1937RUSoviet track-and-field athlete (1937-2021)
- Tamara Moskvinab. 1941RURussian pair skating coach and former competitive skater
- Tamara Bykovab. 1958RUSoviet high jumper
- Tamar Beruchashvilib. 1961GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian politician
- Tamara Gverdtsitelib. 1962GEGeorgian-Russian singer, actress and composer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.6K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.6K | #114 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tamāra mean, and where does it come from?
- Tamar (Biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tamāra a male or female name?
- Tamāra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Tamāra?
- In the etymology graph, Tammy, Tami and Tammie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tamāra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 129 thousand people named Tamāra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamara.
- Where is Tamāra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamāra is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 157 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tamāra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 128,711 people named Tamāra in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Tamāra compared with other names?
- In the United States, Tamāra is the 302nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tam%C4%81raThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tamāra” — the 302nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.