# Tamar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tamar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “tamar”, “date palm”, “date” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈteɪmə(ɹ)/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Thamar |
| US babies named this | 7,044 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 886 / 6,158 (87% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 399, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “Tamar”, literally “date palm, date”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 82 | 2,296 |
| 2012 | 90 | 2,131 |
| 2013 | 108 | 1,877 |
| 2014 | 98 | 2,025 |
| 2015 | 84 | 2,256 |
| 2016 | 85 | 2,267 |
| 2017 | 66 | 2,659 |
| 2018 | 70 | 2,531 |
| 2019 | 62 | 2,751 |
| 2020 | 59 | 2,820 |
| 2021 | 66 | 2,636 |
| 2022 | 71 | 2,525 |
| 2023 | 70 | 2,554 |
| 2024 | 77 | 2,384 |
| 2025 | 73 | 2,455 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 25 | 4,109 |
| 2008 | 26 | 4,024 |
| 2009 | 16 | 5,773 |
| 2010 | 22 | 4,508 |
| 2011 | 18 | 5,173 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5,955 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,627 |
| 2014 | 12 | 7,001 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,492 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,548 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,587 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,906 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,863 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,846 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,644 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,903 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,966 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,901 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |

## People named Tamar

- Tamar Braxton, American singer-songwriter, actress and television personality (born 1977)
- Tamar Kaprelian, Armenian-American singer (b. 1986)
- Tamar Slay, American basketball player (born 1980)
- Éliette Abécassis, French writer
- Thamar Angelina Komnene, Byzantine princess

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.