Tamira
Feminine
One vowel separates this from Tamara, and it is the stressed one, which means the whole name changes shape. Tamara carries an open ah in the middle; Tamira carries a long ee. Change the vowel that takes the weight and you have not respelled a name, you have made a different one.
How old is the name Tamira?
Tamira first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Tamira alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 2,100 people named Tamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamira most popular?
Tamira peaked in 1976, reaching #1677 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
Where it comes from
From Tamara to Tamira
The story of Tamira
The two possible parents are not related by language, geography or period. One is Hebrew, a name about a tree, carried by biblical women and by a Georgian monarch. The other is a set of names ending in -ira that reached English through Arabic and Spanish, where the ending is a genuine grammatical feminine and the stems mean things like princess and companion. A blend can sit between two such families quite comfortably; what it cannot do is inherit from both. So the name arrives looking as though it has two distinguished ancestries and in practice has neither, which is the ordinary condition of a name assembled from sounds.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name sits between two families with entirely separate origins, and the record does not say which a given household had in mind. Without that, no meaning can be reported honestly.
How the name formed
- Tamara
- Tamira
Pronouncing Tamira
tuh-MEER-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The middle vowel is long, which is precisely what separates this name from Tamara in speech.
Nicknames for Tamira
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 199979 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1677reached in 1976
- Change vs 2023
- −35.3%11 in 2024, from 17
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tamiras among us
people named Tamira are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tamira sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Mira and Tami sit inside it as short forms with entirely different characters.
- The rhythm is even and the spelling follows the sound.
- It is rare while sounding completely familiar.
- Tamara and Tamera are both commoner and get substituted constantly.
- No meaning can be given, because the parent name cannot be identified.
- It reads as belonging to a particular stretch of American decades.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Tamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamira in 2025?
- Tamira is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamira with classmates?
- Tamira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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