# Tamera (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tamera/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,282 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 14,282 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 267, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 56 | 3,047 |
| 2012 | 69 | 2,625 |
| 2013 | 81 | 2,301 |
| 2014 | 61 | 2,840 |
| 2015 | 47 | 3,427 |
| 2016 | 57 | 2,964 |
| 2017 | 31 | 4,569 |
| 2018 | 34 | 4,230 |
| 2019 | 37 | 3,997 |
| 2020 | 20 | 6,058 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,727 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,966 |
| 2023 | 26 | 5,113 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,561 |
| 2025 | 17 | 6,801 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | 2,727 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 5 | 3,382 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2,509 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3,397 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 38 | 963 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |

## People named Tamera

- Tamera Mowry, American actress and television personality
- Tamera Young, American basketball player (born 1986)

## 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.