Tamra
Feminine · “date palm”
Tamra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 13,710 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Tamra is Tamara with the middle vowel dropped, and Tamar is Hebrew for the date palm — a tree, and the name of two women in scripture whose stories are anything but decorative.
How old is the name Tamra?
Tamra first appears in US birth records in 1937 — 88 years ago. The typical Tamra alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 12,500 people named Tamra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamra most popular?
Tamra peaked in 1959, reaching #327 nationally. See the whole 1959 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tamar to Tamra
The story of Tamra
Tamar appears twice in the Hebrew Bible in narratives of considerable force, and Tamara is the Russian and Georgian form — Queen Tamar ruled Georgia at its height around 1200 and is a national figure there. American use of Tamara rose through the twentieth century, and the contracted Tamra appears from the 1950s, peaking around 1972.
Meaning
date palm
Through Tamara and the Hebrew tamar, 'date palm'. The word is ordinary Hebrew and the meaning undisputed. The palm was a symbol of grace and of uprightness in Hebrew poetry, and the Song of Songs uses it directly as an image for a woman's bearing.
How the name formed
- tamar
- Tamara
- Tamra
Related forms: Tamara · Tamar · Tamar
Pronouncing Tamra
TAM-ruh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Tamara has three; this spelling records the two-syllable speech form.
Nicknames for Tamra
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
- 1937
- Most girls named
- 1959824 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #327reached in 1959
- Change vs 2016
- −28.6%5 in 2019, from 7
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.
Tamra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tamara in Russian — related form
- Tamar in Georgian — related form
- Tamar in Hebrew — related form
Tamras among us
people named Tamra 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
Tamra 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
- The date-palm meaning is concrete and carries real weight in Hebrew poetry.
- A Georgian queen and two biblical figures stand behind the parent name.
- Tam and Tammy are two short forms at different registers.
- Tamara is much the commoner form and will often be assumed.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Tamra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamra in 2025?
- Tamra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamra with classmates?
- Tamra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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