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Tamera vs Tamra

American parents have registered 14,282 Tameras since 1880, against 13,715 Tamras. Tamera is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tamera against Tamra, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tamera Tamra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 88 years in which either name was published, Tamra for 48 years and Tamera for 40 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tamera Tamra
Total US births 14,28213,715
Most in one year 614824
Babies in 2025 17under 5
Estimated living today 13,00012,000
Median age today 5455
Peak year 19591959
Best rank 381st girls327th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546thunranked
First recorded 19401937
Girls / boys 14,282 / 013,710 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tamera Tamra
England and Wales 2676
France 9010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tamera and Tamra.