Tammra
Feminine · “A spelling of Tamara”
Tammra is Tamara with a doubled m and one vowel gone, built between Tammy and Tamara. Tamara is the name of the painter who made herself the image of the Jazz Age woman at the wheel.
How old is the name Tammra?
Tammra first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Tammra alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 500 people named Tammra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tammra most popular?
Tammra peaked in 1969, reaching #1980 nationally. See the whole 1969 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tamar to Tammra
The story of Tammra
Tammra takes the double m of Tammy and squeezes Tamara from three syllables to two. Tamara de Lempicka, born in Warsaw and made in Paris, painted glossy Art Deco portraits of the rich and fashionable; her self-portrait for a German magazine cover shows her in a leather helmet and gloves, driving a green Bugatti she did not own. Tammra is one of the spellings American families used.
Meaning
A spelling of Tamara, from Hebrew Tamar, 'date palm'
Tamara is the Russian and Georgian form of Hebrew Tamar, 'date palm'. Tammra doubles the m and drops the middle vowel.
How the name formed
- Tamar
- Tamara
- Tammra
Related forms: Tamara · Tamar
Pronouncing Tammra
TAM-ruh
Two syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Tammra
Limited
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
- 196940 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1980reached in 1969
- Change vs 1991
- −37.5%5 in 1998, from 8
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.
Tammra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tamara in Russian — same name
- Tamar in Hebrew — same name
Tammras among us
people named Tammra 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
Tammra 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
- Close to Tamara and Tammy, names everyone knows.
- Comes with Tammy as a ready pet form.
- A settled meaning.
- People will write Tamara or Tamra.
- The missing vowel may be read as a slip.
- It is closely tied to its era.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tammras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Tammra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tammra in 2025?
- Tammra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tammra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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