Meaning not yet researched.
Tamera: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #381 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #381 in 1959; #6,801 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tamera in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,801 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #381.
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Tamera: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #381 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 614 (1959).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Tamera, making it the 6,801st most common girls’ name of the year, up 760 places from #7,561 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 15 girls named Tamera in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #381, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 614. For comparison, it was #3,427 in 2015 and #1,790 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tamera in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 13 babies. In all, 14,282 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 5,260 babies named Tamera.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 280 US girls were named Tamera; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tamara (131,703 babies since 1880), Tamra (13,715 babies since 1880), Tamyra (2,274 babies since 1880) and Tamira (2,158 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Tamera in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,801 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,561 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,113 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,966 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,727 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,058 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,569 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2000 | 170 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1999 | 232 | #913 | — | — |
| 1998 | 260 | #821 | — | — |
| 1997 | 252 | #823 | — | — |
| 1996 | 286 | #739 | — | — |
| 1995 | 270 | #756 | — | — |
| 1994 | 179 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1987 | 117 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1986 | 145 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1985 | 138 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1984 | 138 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1983 | 151 | #971 | — | — |
| 1982 | 156 | #956 | — | — |
| 1981 | 172 | #885 | — | — |
| 1980 | 175 | #880 | — | — |
| 1979 | 147 | #980 | — | — |
| 1978 | 166 | #884 | — | — |
| 1977 | 212 | #726 | — | — |
| 1976 | 169 | #825 | — | — |
| 1975 | 230 | #665 | — | — |
| 1974 | 225 | #669 | — | — |
| 1973 | 239 | #635 | — | — |
| 1972 | 266 | #602 | — | — |
| 1971 | 348 | #527 | — | — |
| 1970 | 408 | #492 | — | — |
| 1969 | 452 | #457 | — | — |
| 1968 | 454 | #451 | — | — |
| 1967 | 482 | #427 | — | — |
| 1966 | 503 | #415 | — | — |
| 1965 | 486 | #425 | — | — |
| 1964 | 588 | #402 | — | — |
| 1963 | 585 | #396 | — | — |
| 1962 | 570 | #405 | — | — |
| 1961 | 584 | #403 | — | — |
| 1960 | 556 | #409 | — | — |
| 1959 | 614 | #381 | — | — |
| 1958 | 450 | #449 | — | — |
| 1957 | 255 | #617 | — | — |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,401 | — | — |
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).