Tamera

Where Tamera comes from

The dictionaries list Tamera as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Tamara, popularized by actress Tamera Mowry in the 1990s — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1940
    First appearance
    #2,297 among girls, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #381
    614 babies named Tamera — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #599.
  4. 1978
    Tamera Mowry born
    American actress and television personality
  5. 1986
    Tamera Young born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Tamara, popularized by actress Tamera Mowry in the 1990s.
Namesakes
  • Tamera Mowry · American actress and television personality, born 1978
  • Tamera Young · American basketball player, born 1986

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.