Tamar
Tamar was given to 73 girls in 2025, #2,455 among girls’ names; 7,044 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,670 Americans named Tamar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamar is “a female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the senses “Tamar” (tamár,) and “date palm, date” (literally).
From Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “Tamar”, literally “date palm, date”).
/ˈteɪmə(ɹ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamar?
#2,455 among girls’ names, 2025
Tamar fell from #2,256 in 2015 to #2,455 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.1 to 45.4 per million.
149 babies in 1977, the peak
Tamar peaked in 1977, when 149 babies were given it (133 girls, #1,015 among girls’ names). The 73 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,455 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,384 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,554 | 8 | #9,639 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,525 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,636 | 5 | #13,840 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,820 | 6 | #11,857 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,751 | 5 | #13,900 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,531 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,659 | 8 | #9,582 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,267 | 11 | #7,543 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,256 | 7 | #10,486 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,025 | 12 | #6,996 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,877 | 16 | #5,623 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,131 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,296 | 18 | #5,169 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,723 | 22 | #4,507 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,641 | 16 | #5,769 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,205 | 26 | #4,021 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,211 | 25 | #4,107 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,266 | 17 | #5,268 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,136 | 22 | #4,168 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,083 | 21 | #4,246 |
| 2003 | 109 | #1,739 | 29 | #3,260 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,767 | 21 | #4,020 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,866 | 29 | #3,133 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,753 | 42 | #2,320 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,631 | 30 | #2,851 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,770 | 32 | #2,639 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,668 | 22 | #3,331 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,666 | 19 | #3,650 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,621 | 23 | #3,083 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,749 | 19 | #3,570 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,808 | 9 | #6,161 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,570 | 14 | #4,297 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,759 | 19 | #3,303 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,749 | 20 | #3,148 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,420 | 15 | #3,782 |
| 1988 | 106 | #1,349 | 19 | #2,937 |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,457 | 22 | #2,544 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,437 | 17 | #2,991 |
| 1985 | 124 | #1,157 | 17 | #2,921 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,119 | 10 | #4,169 |
| 1983 | 126 | #1,094 | 19 | #2,563 |
| 1982 | 124 | #1,137 | 14 | #3,264 |
| 1981 | 119 | #1,147 | 18 | #2,668 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,334 | 20 | #2,525 |
| 1979 | 132 | #1,055 | 16 | #2,885 |
| 1978 | 112 | #1,149 | 23 | #2,122 |
| 1977 | 133 | #1,015 | 16 | #2,770 |
| 1976 | 101 | #1,152 | 23 | #2,110 |
| 1975 | 94 | #1,225 | 16 | #2,628 |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,131 | 13 | #2,926 |
| 1973 | 93 | #1,173 | 7 | #4,446 |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,413 | 6 | #4,932 |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,298 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 80 | #1,328 | 7 | #4,188 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,397 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,308 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,493 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 77 | #1,230 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 78 | #1,225 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,703 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,621 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,536 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,594 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,577 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,911 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,602 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,112 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,146 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,403 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,369 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,089 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,398 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,381 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,522 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,502 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,687 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,674 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,365 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,108 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,931 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,775 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,703 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,007 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,962 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,396 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,425 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,850 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,786 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,821 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,889 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,895 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,201 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,634 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,876 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tamar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,044 Americans recorded as Tamar, 87% are girls and 13% boys. In 2025 it went to 73 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tamar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamar, and how old are they?
6,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 7,044 Americans ever recorded as Tamar. The median Tamar alive today is 34 years old; half are between 20 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 7,142 people named Tamar (6,434 women and girls, 708 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Tamar rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 447 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,490 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tamar born?
The states with the most babies named Tamar are New York, California and New Jersey, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,479 | #897 | 3.0× |
| California | 816 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 414 | #418 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 226 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 151 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 144 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 104 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 99 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 90 | #720 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 79 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tamar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamar is most over-represented in New York: since 1915 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tamar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tamar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tamar and names like it
- Compare Tamar and AdriannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamar peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamar since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Tamar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tamar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tamar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.