Tamara

Where Tamara comes from

Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára), name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר (tāmār, “date palm”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tamara
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Tamara Karsavina born
    Russian ballet dancer
  2. 1898
    Tamara de Lempicka born
    Polish painter
  3. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1974
    Peak, #63
    4,525 babies named Tamara — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #148.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.
Namesakes
  • Tamara de Lempicka · Polish painter, 1898–1980
  • Tamara Karsavina · Russian ballet dancer, 1885–1978
  • Tamara Todevska · Macedonian singer, born 1985
  • Tamara Smirnova · Russian astronomer, 1935–2001
  • Tamara Press · Soviet track-and-field athlete, 1937–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.