Meaning not yet researched.
Tamar: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,015 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,015 in 1977; #2,455 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tamar in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,455 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,015.
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Tamar: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,015 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 133 (1977).
In 2025, 73 US girls were named Tamar, making it the 2,455th most common girls’ name of the year, down 71 places from #2,384 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 77 girls named Tamar in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,015, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 133. For comparison, it was #2,256 in 2015 and #2,523 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Tamar in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,111, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 42, in 2000. For comparison, it was #10,492 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tamar in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 7,044 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,274 babies named Tamar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 699 US girls were named Tamar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tamar ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #418 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tammy (333,407 babies since 1880), Tamara (131,703 babies since 1880) and Tamir (2,460 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tamer, Tahmir and Taimur are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tamer (832), Tahmir (265), Taimur (143), Taymar (74), Taymir (34), Tamare (22), Tammer (22), Thamer (18), Tameer (18), Tamarr (17), Tamere (11), Taymur (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tamar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 19 | #418 | #705 |
| Maryland | 7 | #720 | #1,031 |
| New York | 18 | #897 | #1,208 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,554 | 8 | #9,644 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,636 | 5 | #13,846 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,820 | 6 | #11,863 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,751 | 5 | #13,906 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,659 | 8 | #9,587 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,267 | 11 | #7,548 |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,256 | 7 | #10,492 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,025 | 12 | #7,001 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,877 | 16 | #5,627 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,131 | 15 | #5,955 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,296 | 18 | #5,173 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,723 | 22 | #4,508 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,642 | 16 | #5,773 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,205 | 26 | #4,024 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,211 | 25 | #4,109 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,266 | 17 | #5,272 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,137 | 22 | #4,173 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,085 | 21 | #4,251 |
| 2003 | 109 | #1,740 | 29 | #3,265 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,769 | 21 | #4,026 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,870 | 29 | #3,138 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,757 | 42 | #2,324 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,633 | 30 | #2,855 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,773 | 32 | #2,642 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,670 | 22 | #3,336 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,668 | 19 | #3,656 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,625 | 23 | #3,088 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,754 | 19 | #3,576 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,812 | 9 | #6,167 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,573 | 14 | #4,304 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,765 | 19 | #3,309 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,753 | 20 | #3,154 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,423 | 15 | #3,788 |
| 1988 | 106 | #1,350 | 19 | #2,942 |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,458 | 22 | #2,548 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,437 | 17 | #2,994 |
| 1985 | 124 | #1,157 | 17 | #2,924 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,119 | 10 | #4,172 |
| 1983 | 126 | #1,094 | 19 | #2,564 |
| 1982 | 124 | #1,137 | 14 | #3,265 |
| 1981 | 119 | #1,147 | 18 | #2,669 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,334 | 20 | #2,526 |
| 1979 | 132 | #1,055 | 16 | #2,886 |
| 1978 | 112 | #1,149 | 23 | #2,122 |
| 1977 | 133 | #1,015 | 16 | #2,771 |
| 1976 | 101 | #1,152 | 23 | #2,111 |
| 1975 | 94 | #1,225 | 16 | #2,630 |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,131 | 13 | #2,928 |
| 1973 | 93 | #1,173 | 7 | #4,448 |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,413 | 6 | #4,934 |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1970 | 80 | #1,328 | 7 | #4,190 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1966 | 77 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1965 | 78 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,009 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,964 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,852 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,823 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,203 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,635 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,878 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).