Tamar
Tamar is a girl's name that peaked in 1977, when it was the 1,009th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,438th. About 6,700 Tamars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tamar boys named Tamar
Girls and boys called Tamar
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 6,158 girls and 886 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 73 to 0.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 70 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,044
- Estimated living today
- 6,700
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 1,009th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,438th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 6,158 / 886
How old the living Tamars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,044 babies given the name since 1915, about 6,700 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 320 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Hebrew תָּמָר (“Tamar”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tamars
- Tamar Braxton (born 1977)American singer
- Tamar Abakelia (1905–1953)Georgian sculptor, theater designer and illustrator
- Tamar Zandberg (born 1976)Israeli politician
- Tamar Kaprelian (born 1986)Armenian-American singer
- Tamar Novas (born 1986)Spanish actor
- Tamar Beruchashvili (born 1961)Georgian politician
- Tamar Eshel (1920–2022)Israeli politician
People named Tamar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tamar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tamar is most concentrated in New York (5.1×), New Jersey (4.0×), California (2.2×), Florida (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Tamar peaked:
Tamar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Tamar | 390 | 782nd |
| France girls | Tamar | 215 | 3,223rd |
| Poland girls | Tamar | 30 birth registrations | 319th |
| England and Wales boys | Tamar | 9 | 3,651st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tamar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Tamar | 11 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Tamar lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 971 women called Tamar were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Tamar | 6 | 0.139 | 735 |
| Rioja, La | Tamar | 22 | 0.133 | 680 |
| Araba/Álava | Tamar | 14 | 0.081 | 987 |
| Barcelona | Tamar | 230 | 0.076 | 887 |
| Lleida | Tamar | 16 | 0.072 | 989 |
| Zamora | Tamar | 6 | 0.072 | 835 |
Listed in 36 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 16 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Tamar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.