Tamara

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Тамара in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 3 more, Tamar in GE Georgia, PS Palestine and תמר in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tamara is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name124K records spelled Tamara9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Russia

  Also written Ta-Mara, Tâmara, Tamará, Tamára, Tamarā

• Indonesian given name14K records spelled Tamara8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written 'Tamara, Tamara', Tamāra, Tàmara, Tâmara

• Uzbek given name13K records spelled Tamara22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkish

  Also written Тамара, Tamāra, Tâmara, Támara, Tamarä

• Greek given name3.7K records spelled Tamara4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, Spain, Cyprus

  Also written Ταμάρα, Ταμαρα, Τάμαρα

• Armenian given name2.8K records spelled Tamara3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Armenia, Russia, Canada

  Also written Թամարա, T̕amara

83 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tamara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• 2 From Hebrew: ‘date palm’. See main dictionary. Tanya @ Pet form of TATYANA.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Hebreo thamar ‘palmera de dátiles’

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Swedish, Tamara är en rysk form av det hebreiska tāmār ’dadelpalm’ (en symbol för skönhet). Även namnformen Tamar finns i Sverige.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Romanian, < ebr. Thamar, n. de femeie In V. Testament. 1. State, §etrar (I Div); Tamaru, Z. (ib).

  as a name·Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tamara Karsavinab. 1885RURussian ballet dancer
• Tamara de Lempickab. 1898PLPolish painter (1894-1980)
• Tamara Makarovab. 1907RUSoviet film actress, drama teacher (1907–1997)
• Tamara Pressb. 1937RUSoviet track-and-field athlete (1937-2021)
• Tamara Bykovab. 1958RUSoviet high jumper
• Tamara E. Jerniganb. 1959USastronaut
• Tamara Tunieb. 1959USAmerican actress (1959-)
• Tamara Gverdtsitelib. 1962GEGeorgian-Russian singer, actress and composer
• Tamara Taylorb. 1970CACanadian actress (born 1970)
• Tamara Todevskab. 1985MKMacedonian singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,535 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tamara?

We estimate roughly 313 thousand people bear Tamara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Tamara have the most bearers?

Tamara is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled тамара.

Where is Tamara most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamara is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 84 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Tamara compared with other names?

In Russia, Tamara is the 53rd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Tamara a male or female name?

Tamara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Tamara mean?

Recorded meaning: Russian: probably derived from the Hebrew name Tamar, from a vocabulary word meaning ‘date palm’, with the addition of the feminine suffix -a: The name Tamar is borne in the Bible by two female charac…