Tamara
Tamara is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 115 births. Its best rank was 64th, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1150.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19704,721 births
- Best rank
- #64in 1974
- Since 1917
- 131,170people given the name
The story in the numbers
131,170 girls have been named Tamara in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 4,721 births — 0.27% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 115 births in 2024, against 4,721 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tamara | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 30 | |
| 1930s | 292 | |
| 1940s | 2,365 | |
| 1950s | 13,090 | |
| 1960s | 39,006 | |
| 1970s | 37,076 | |
| 1980s | 21,236 | |
| 1990s | 10,695 | |
| 2000s | 5,100 | |
| 2010s | 1,719 | |
| 2020s | 555 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Tamara was the 79th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Tamara
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rochellpeak 1971
- Danapeak 1971
- Deedrapeak 1970
- Leighpeak 1969
- Jodeepeak 1973
- Tammarapeak 1963
- Kimberliepeak 1970
- Bethannpeak 1967
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.