Tamará

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tamará 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára).

rarermore common
  • 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 Tamará 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)

128,711 people, 2020

#447 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
554 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 157 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TamaráLatin(measured from records)
תמרHebrew(measured from records)
ТамарCyrillic(measured from records)
ԹամարArmenian(measured from records)
თამარიGeorgian(measured from records)
ตะมะระThai(measured from records)
ታማራEthiopic(measured from records)
타마라Hangul(measured from records)
ΤαμαρGreek(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Tamará: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Tamará
  1. RussianТама́раTamára(measured from records)
  2. Hebrewתָּמָרtamár“Tamar”(inferred from the name graph)via Тама́ра

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára).

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tamará 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.

Where Tamará is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#302128,7111 in 2.6K129KTamara554
UA Ukraine#608≈58,000 est.≈1 in 752—תמרה63
BR Brazil#54744,5191 in 4.8K49KTamara157
AR Argentina#270≈36,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K52Tamara123
ES Spain#12733,8621 in 1.5K34KTamara179
GE Georgia#528,673as თამარი1 in 13929KTamar123
MD Moldova#38521,4151 in 15721KTamara26
IL Israel#31≈21,000 est.≈1 in 405506תמר117
LV Latvia#1034,6061 in 4084.6Kתמרה19

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)

Tamará 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 Irish, tamaraw

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tamará under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tamará mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
Is Tamará a male or female name?
Tamará 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.
In which country does Tamará have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 129 thousand people named Tamará, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamara.
Where is Tamará most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamará 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 Tamará?
In the United States, the national register counted 128,711 people named Tamará in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
How common is Tamará compared with other names?
In the United States, Tamará is the 302nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tamará” — the 302nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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