Tamir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: rich or abounding in dates, date seller
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑmɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 182K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.5Kas תמיר
- SDSudan≈1 in 11K
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 Tamir 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 named תמיר, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled תמיר in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia.
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)
rich or abounding in dates, date seller
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #354 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 2.6K | תמיר | 116 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | תמיר | 4 |
| SD Sudan | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Tamir | 9 |
| US United States | — | 1,830 | 1 in 182K | 1.7K | Tamir | 222 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Tamir | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tamir | 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Tamir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, rich or abounding in dates
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
‘Rich in dates’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
One who
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Turkish, repair, restoration, maintenance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, repair, maintenance.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tamir Pardob. 1953ILIsraeli military officer, Director of the Mossad
- Tamir Haymanb. 1969ILIsraeli military officer
- Tamir Bloomb. 1971USfencer
- Tamir Muskatb. 1972ILIsraeli musician
- Tamir Yardenneb. 1977USAmerican actor
- Tamir Goodmanb. 1982USAmerican basketball player
- Tamir Cohenb. 1984ILIsraeli association football player
- Tamir Kahlonb. 1987ILIsraeli footballer
- Tamir Nabatyb. 1991ILIsraeli chess player
- Tamir Blattb. 1997ILIsraeli basketball player (born 1997)
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 67 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 410 | #54,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 326 | #61,585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 236 | #75,938 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Tamir?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑmɪɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tamir mean, and where does it come from?
- rich or abounding in dates, date seller Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Tamir a male or female name?
- Tamir is a male 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 Tamir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named תמיר in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tamir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,830 people named Tamir in 2020, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
- How common is Tamir compared with other names?
- In Israel, Tamir is the 354th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamirThe 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, “Tamir” — the 354th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.