Tamera
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1959 · 614 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,282since 1940
Tamera over time
Rank among girls' names. Tamera has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 |
| 2012 | #2,597 | 69 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 |
| 2008 | #2,802 | 64 |
| 2007 | #2,213 | 89 |
| 2006 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 |
| 2003 | #1,526 | 127 |
| 2002 | #1,432 | 133 |
| 2001 | #1,523 | 122 |
| 2000 | #1,176 | 170 |
| 1999 | #910 | 232 |
| 1998 | #818 | 260 |
| 1997 | #820 | 252 |
| 1996 | #737 | 286 |
| 1995 | #754 | 270 |
| 1994 | #1,032 | 179 |
| 1993 | #2,045 | 67 |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 |
| 1991 | #1,702 | 86 |
| 1990 | #1,769 | 82 |
| 1989 | #1,804 | 74 |
| 1988 | #1,446 | 95 |
| 1987 | #1,222 | 117 |
| 1986 | #1,042 | 145 |
| 1985 | #1,066 | 138 |
| 1984 | #1,028 | 138 |
| 1983 | #968 | 151 |
| 1982 | #950 | 156 |
| 1981 | #884 | 172 |
| 1980 | #875 | 175 |
| 1979 | #974 | 147 |
| 1978 | #883 | 166 |
| 1977 | #726 | 212 |
| 1976 | #823 | 169 |
| 1975 | #660 | 230 |
| 1974 | #668 | 225 |
| 1973 | #634 | 239 |
| 1972 | #599 | 266 |
| 1971 | #525 | 348 |
| 1970 | #492 | 408 |
| 1969 | #455 | 452 |
| 1968 | #449 | 454 |
| 1967 | #426 | 482 |
| 1966 | #414 | 503 |
| 1965 | #425 | 486 |
| 1964 | #402 | 588 |
| 1963 | #396 | 585 |
| 1962 | #404 | 570 |
| 1961 | #402 | 584 |
| 1960 | #408 | 556 |
| 1959 | #381 | 614 |
| 1958 | #449 | 450 |
| 1957 | #611 | 255 |
| 1956 | #1,287 | 65 |
| 1955 | #1,597 | 41 |
| 1954 | #1,392 | 52 |
| 1953 | #1,549 | 40 |
| 1952 | #1,680 | 34 |
| 1951 | #1,701 | 32 |
| 1950 | #1,764 | 29 |
| 1949 | #1,807 | 28 |
| 1948 | #2,416 | 17 |
| 1947 | #2,045 | 23 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #2,742 | 11 |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 |
| 1943 | #1,900 | 21 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tamera! It came in at #2,297, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1941–1942, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Tamera is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#234 · 1 in 1,082
- Louisiana#318 · 1 in 1,561
- South Carolina#327 · 1 in 1,679
- Mississippi#367 · 1 in 1,740
- Tennessee#367 · 1 in 2,180
Best ever in a state: #119 in Utah, 1967.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #234 | 11 | 1 in 1,082 |
| Louisiana | #318 | 14 | 1 in 1,561 |
| South Carolina | #327 | 10 | 1 in 1,679 |
| Mississippi | #367 | 7 | 1 in 1,740 |
| Tennessee | #367 | 14 | 1 in 2,180 |
| Maryland | #454 | 9 | 1 in 2,660 |
| Alabama | #480 | 7 | 1 in 2,978 |
| Virginia | #487 | 11 | 1 in 3,083 |
| Georgia | #557 | 12 | 1 in 3,712 |
| Illinois | #573 | 19 | 1 in 3,706 |
| Missouri | #618 | 7 | 1 in 4,241 |
| Michigan | #645 | 11 | 1 in 4,683 |
| Minnesota | #666 | 5 | 1 in 5,054 |
| Wisconsin | #666 | 5 | 1 in 5,043 |
| North Carolina | #732 | 8 | 1 in 5,261 |
| Ohio | #737 | 10 | 1 in 6,162 |
| Florida | #783 | 13 | 1 in 5,714 |
| Indiana | #830 | 5 | 1 in 6,616 |
| New York | #1,124 | 11 | 1 in 9,156 |
| Texas | #1,143 | 15 | 1 in 9,563 |
| California | #1,317 | 18 | 1 in 12,279 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tamera
- 705 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #6,546)
- 696 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #6,546)
- 3,157 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 676 spots in 1957 (#1,287 → #611)
- Biggest drop: 266 spots in 2000 (#910 → #1,176)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1959 at #381 (614 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1957–1983
- Highest: 1 in 3,223 girls born in 1964 were named Tamera (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #381 in 1959, was only 1 in 3,296 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.8% of all girls named Tamera (5,260) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 163 | #1,807 (1949) | #2,419 |
| 1950s | 1,612 | #381 (1959) | #1,241 |
| 1960s | 5,260 | #396 (1963) | #418 |
| 1970s | 2,410 | #492 (1970) | #698 |
| 1980s | 1,361 | #875 (1980) | #1,129 |
| 1990s | 1,776 | #737 (1996) | #1,274 |
| 2000s | 1,040 | #1,176 (2000) | #1,995 |
| 2010s | 539 | #2,279 (2013) | #3,226 |
| 2020s | 121 | #4,999 (2023) | #6,002 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tamera in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 6,796 of them was named Tamera, which outranked 95.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).