Tamarah
Tamarah was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,326 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Tamarah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 30 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamarah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamarah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamarah is “a female given name, variant of Tamara.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamarah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,428, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1996, the peak
Tamarah peaked in 1996, when 38 girls were given it, #3,135 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,428 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,870 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,735 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,769 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,783 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,440 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,658 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,662 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,171 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,330 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #11,507 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,777 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,542 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,973 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,047 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,266 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,359 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,584 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,131 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,451 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,333 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,985 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,135 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,496 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,098 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,368 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,363 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,981 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,505 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,035 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,151 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,025 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,264 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,402 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,983 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,840 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,758 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,424 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,993 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,522 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,562 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,473 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,174 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,148 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,676 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 23 | #3,006 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,871 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,592 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,927 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,389 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,755 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,161 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,385 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,599 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,901 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,164 | 16.1 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,019 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,406 | 12.9 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,292 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,145 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,372 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,137 | 7.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamarah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamarah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamarah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamarah, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,326 Americans ever recorded as Tamarah. The median Tamarah alive today is 41 years old; half are between 30 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,275 people named Tamarah (1,274 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,269 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 175 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 335 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 447 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 256 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 41 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 169,185 babies since 1880, Tamarah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 135 babies recorded by SSA was a Tamarah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tamarah
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 Tamarah and names like it
- Compare Tamarah and TamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTamarah peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamarah since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Tamarah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tamarah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.