Tamora
Feminine
Tamora is the name of a queen in Shakespeare's first and most notorious tragedy, and it is also one letter from a Russian name in ordinary American use. Which one a family meant is not recorded, and the two suggest very different things.
How old is the name Tamora?
Tamora first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Tamora alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 600 people named Tamora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamora most popular?
Tamora peaked in 1958, reaching #1985 nationally. See the whole 1958 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tamora
Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare's first tragedy and, on the evidence of print runs and contemporary references, the most popular play he ever wrote in his own lifetime. It contains fourteen killings, a rape, three severed hands, a severed tongue and a scene in which two men are baked into a pie and served to their mother. Later centuries found it unbearable: it was rewritten, cut, disowned as not his at all, and for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries effectively unperformable. T. S. Eliot called it one of the stupidest plays ever written. It came back in the twentieth century, when audiences who had seen what a century could do stopped finding the violence implausible, and modern productions treat it seriously. Tamora, queen of the Goths, is the engine of most of it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
If it comes from the play, it is an invented name with no meaning; Shakespeare's source for it has never been identified. If it is a respelling of Tamara, it carries a Hebrew word for a date palm. The record holds no evidence for either.
Pronouncing Tamora
TAM-uh-ruh
Three syllables with the stress at the front. Some families say tuh-MOR-uh with the weight in the middle, and nothing on the page settles it.
Nicknames for Tamora
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
- 195831 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1985reached in 1958
- Change vs 2022
- +80.0%9 in 2024, from 5
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.
Tamoras among us
people named Tamora 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
Tamora 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
- Three short forms come out of it and none sounds like the others.
- Front stress on three syllables is a comfortable English rhythm.
- It is genuinely rare while being built from familiar sounds.
- Tamara and Tamera are both commoner and will be written for it.
- The character it may come from is a murderer, and readers who know the play will know that.
- Stress placement is unsettled, so strangers will say it two ways.
Nobody names a baby alone.
Put Tamora to the vote.
Add it to a family vote or a couple’s swipe deck — the other person gets one card, a simple answer and room to say why. No app, no account for them.
Only the people you invite can see your list.
Already decided on Tamora? Hide it among decoys and let them guess.
What they receive
Someone added a name to your list
Tamora
Feminine
Frequently asked
- How many Tamoras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Tamora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamora in 2025?
- Tamora is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamora with classmates?
- Tamora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More T names
The most-given names starting with T, all years combined.
Teresa#908 · Theresa#1548 · Tiffany#878 · Tammy#3645 · Taylor#403 · Tina#2778 · Tracy#2153 · Thelma#4661
Looking for what else is popular rather than what resembles Tamora? See the current top 100.
Choosing between Tamora and another name?
See them side by side — full stats, history and a gentle verdict.
Compare side by sideIn a hurry? Just pick a winner — one tap, no sign-up, and you see how everyone else voted.
Weighing a whole shortlist? Add the rest in the builder, or settle it with a bracket.
Cast your vote
Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
No advertising trackers and no data sellinghow we handle your dataindependent and founder-run, about Name Battle