Tamra

Where Tamra comes from

The dictionaries list Tamra as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1937
    First appearance
    #3,800 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Tamra Rosanes born
    Danish-American singer, songwriter
  3. 1959
    Peak, #327
    824 babies named Tamra — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1962
    Tamra Davis born
    American film director, music video director, television director
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #478.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara.
Namesakes
  • Tamra Davis · American film director, music video director, television director, born 1962
  • Tamra Rosanes · Danish-American singer, songwriter, born 1951

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.