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Tamara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 111 in 2025. Its best rank was #64 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #64 in 1974; #1,816 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tamara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,816 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #64.
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Tamara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 111 girls in 2025. Peak: #64 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 4,721 (1970).
In 2025, 111 US girls were named Tamara, making it the 1,816th most common girls’ name of the year, down 49 places from #1,767 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 115 girls named Tamara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #64, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,721, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,315 in 2015 and #407 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tamara in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 131,703 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 39,116 babies named Tamara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,202 US girls were named Tamara; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 155. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,480 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tamara ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #932 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), Tamera (14,282 babies since 1880), Tamra (13,715 babies since 1880) and Tamar (7,044 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tamarah, Tamarra and Tamora are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tami, Tammie and Tammy.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tamarah (1,326), Tamarra (1,220), Tamora (677), Tamaira (278), Thamara (252), Tamirah (218), Tamura (193), Tamerra (138), Tamirra (125), Tamorah (80), Tamyrah (62), Tamiera (48), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #932 | #848 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,106 | #901 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,514 | #1,476 |
| California | 15 | #1,567 | #1,478 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,606 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,618 | #912 |
| New York | 7 | #1,815 | #922 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,190 | #2,040 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 111 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 2016 | 155 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2015 | 181 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 2014 | 168 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2013 | 187 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2012 | 203 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2010 | 231 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2009 | 300 | #908 | — | — |
| 2008 | 352 | #816 | — | — |
| 2007 | 416 | #700 | — | — |
| 2006 | 416 | #681 | — | — |
| 2005 | 438 | #639 | — | — |
| 2004 | 503 | #568 | — | — |
| 2003 | 575 | #499 | — | — |
| 2002 | 797 | #374 | 5 | #12,286 |
| 2001 | 623 | #447 | — | — |
| 2000 | 681 | #417 | — | — |
| 1999 | 750 | #383 | — | — |
| 1998 | 879 | #335 | — | — |
| 1997 | 933 | #316 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,004 | #288 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,070 | #258 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,131 | #245 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,020 | #269 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,265 | #223 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,262 | #227 | 6 | #8,121 |
| 1990 | 1,381 | #209 | 9 | #5,761 |
| 1989 | 1,486 | #187 | 13 | #4,243 |
| 1988 | 1,531 | #183 | 6 | #7,154 |
| 1987 | 1,735 | #160 | 7 | #6,017 |
| 1986 | 2,101 | #134 | 10 | #4,423 |
| 1985 | 1,991 | #148 | 16 | #3,059 |
| 1984 | 2,289 | #124 | 9 | #4,510 |
| 1983 | 2,280 | #131 | 13 | #3,394 |
| 1982 | 2,361 | #129 | 11 | #3,928 |
| 1981 | 2,653 | #115 | 11 | #3,825 |
| 1980 | 2,808 | #108 | 13 | #3,407 |
| 1979 | 2,885 | #104 | 19 | #2,556 |
| 1978 | 2,801 | #105 | 6 | #5,684 |
| 1977 | 3,126 | #93 | 19 | #2,448 |
| 1976 | 3,086 | #91 | 16 | #2,694 |
| 1975 | 3,629 | #77 | 17 | #2,528 |
| 1974 | 4,525 | #64 | 23 | #1,972 |
| 1973 | 4,286 | #66 | 19 | #2,209 |
| 1972 | 3,531 | #84 | 18 | #2,234 |
| 1971 | 4,486 | #80 | 15 | #2,540 |
| 1970 | 4,721 | #79 | 12 | #2,874 |
| 1969 | 4,652 | #78 | 13 | #2,534 |
| 1968 | 4,308 | #80 | 15 | #2,186 |
| 1967 | 4,000 | #86 | 10 | #2,751 |
| 1966 | 3,482 | #98 | 11 | #2,609 |
| 1965 | 3,562 | #104 | 18 | #1,909 |
| 1964 | 3,807 | #108 | 14 | #2,304 |
| 1963 | 3,980 | #111 | 9 | #3,032 |
| 1962 | 3,822 | #119 | 5 | #4,562 |
| 1961 | 3,728 | #125 | 7 | #3,622 |
| 1960 | 3,665 | #124 | 8 | #3,311 |
| 1959 | 3,799 | #121 | 9 | #3,021 |
| 1958 | 3,412 | #127 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,846 | #191 | 5 | #4,489 |
| 1956 | 728 | #323 | — | — |
| 1955 | 670 | #329 | — | — |
| 1954 | 664 | #328 | — | — |
| 1953 | 583 | #345 | — | — |
| 1952 | 531 | #359 | — | — |
| 1951 | 471 | #376 | — | — |
| 1950 | 387 | #407 | — | — |
| 1949 | 352 | #419 | — | — |
| 1948 | 324 | #443 | — | — |
| 1947 | 373 | #422 | — | — |
| 1946 | 306 | #441 | — | — |
| 1945 | 194 | #528 | — | — |
| 1944 | 193 | #523 | — | — |
| 1943 | 168 | #582 | — | — |
| 1942 | 133 | #647 | — | — |
| 1941 | 143 | #587 | — | — |
| 1940 | 179 | #516 | — | — |
| 1939 | 65 | #876 | — | — |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,509 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,532 | — | — |
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).