Tamra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰæmɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 32K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Tamra | 6 |
| US United States | 12,719 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Tamra | 388 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Tamra | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 37 | Tamra | 71 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Tamra | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 1 | Tamra | 88 |
| AU Australia | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 4 | Tamra | 87 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Tamra | 18 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Tamra 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 ang, strong genitive plural of tam
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)
- Tamra Engelhornb. 1945NZbotanist (1945 - )
- Tamra Rosanesb. 1951USDanish-American singer, songwriter
- Tamra Meskimenb. 1959USAmerican actress
- Tamra Davisb. 1962USAmerican film director, music video director, television director (born 1962)
- Tamra Merciecab. 1980AUAustralian life coach
- Tamra Borchardt-Slaytonb. 1987USPaiute politician
- Tamra Daeb. 1990USAmerican fitness model and bodybuilder
- Tamra KeenanAmerican female singers
- Tamra ReynoldsCAmusher
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 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,109 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 824 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 587 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 567 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 565 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 524 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 506 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 493 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 472 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 458 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 453 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 424 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Tamra mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tamra?
- In the etymology graph, Tamara, Tamar and Tamera are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tamra?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰæmɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tamra a male or female name?
- Tamra 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 Tamra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Tamra in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamra.
- How common is the name Tamra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,719 people named Tamra in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamraThe 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, “Tamra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.