Thamara

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Tamara in US United States, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 18 more, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name 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◐

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

• English given name12K records spelled Thamara10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Netherlands, Venezuela

  Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

  Also written Thamarâ, Thámara, Thâmara

• French given name907 records spelled Thamara4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Thâmara, Thámárá

• a separate given name391 records spelled Thamara2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Thâmara

• Indonesian given name285 records spelled Thamara3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, India

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Thâmara

• Arabic given name144 records spelled Thamara3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Syria

  Also written Thâmara

34 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.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 53 years between 1951–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Thamara de Swirskyb. 1888Russian dancer and pianist
• Thamara Kinskáb. 1935FR(1935-2019)
• Thamara Barthb. 1974DEGerman actress
• Thamara Gómezb. 1999PEPeruvian singer
• Thamara RuellasBRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7192-6068)
• Thamara ZaccaBRresearcher

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 · 277 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thamara?

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

In which country does Thamara have the most bearers?

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

Where is Thamara most common?

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

How common is Thamara compared with other names?

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

Is Thamara a male or female name?

Thamara 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.