Tamariz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: tamarisk (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tamaris/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tamariz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 756K
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 19K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,300 people, est.

Sources
122 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tamarisk (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tamariz 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 Tamariz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 14K—Tamariz54
US United States—4401 in 756K447Tamariz122
NI Nicaragua#586≈340 est.≈1 in 19K—Tamariz16
CO Colombia—≈170 est.≈1 in 285K—Tamariz13
BR Brazil—≈130 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Tamariz15
DO Dominican Republic—≈74 est.≈1 in 142K—Tamariz13
CR Costa Rica—461 in 111K46—7

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tamariz is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Támariz

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tamaríz

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tamariz 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 Basque, tamaris . Tamariz, taray. v. tamarisko. Tamarisak urritu egin dira mendiaren maldan. Lasa Poem 117. Tamarizaren gerizpean. Ib. 93. Tamariza eta pikondoa. Ib. 57.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

1700180019002000José Nicolás de la Escalera, b. 1734Ernesto Tamariz, b. 1904Norberto Melgarejo Tamariz, b. 1933Juan Tamariz, b. 1942Ximena Tamariz García, b. 1979Milena Warthon, b. 2000

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)

FormalEstimado/a Tamariz,Dear Tamariz, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tamariz,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Tamariz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020447#50,535
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010440#48,060
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000283#65,492
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—46#2,249
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Tamariz mean, and where does it come from?
tamarisk (shrub of the genus Tamarix) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tamariz?
A machine transcription gives /tamaris/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Tamariz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Tamariz in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamariz.
How common is the name Tamariz?
In the United States, the national register counted 440 people named Tamariz in 2010, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.
How common is Tamariz compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Tamariz is the 586th most common surname of 5,756 surnames 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, “Tamariz” — the 586th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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