Tamar — #2361 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tamar

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,083 babies named Tamar between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamar currently holds the #2361 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 133 babies received it in a single year. Tamar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 885 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamar performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,102 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Tamar shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,437 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamar in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tamar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,083 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.