Tamarra — girls' name
1,220 babies named Tamarra in U.S. Social Security records since 1943, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Tamarra was born in this single decade.
44 babies were named Tamarra in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tamarra
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,220 babies named Tamarra between 1943 and 2013, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamarra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 44 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamarra performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 325 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Tamarra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamarra in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tamarra 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 1,220 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.
Tamarra at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tamarra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1943
- Peak year (1980)
- 44
- Annual births at peak — across 71 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
1,220 total births across 71 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 44 births in a single year.
Tamarra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 325 births that decade — 27% of Tamarra's all-time total
Tamarra decade highlights
- Peak decade 325 births
- Runner-up 304 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Tamarra's strongest decade
325 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Tamarra by state
Where Tamarra concentrates geographically — total births since 1943
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 33 | 2.7% |
| #2 | New York | | 21 | 1.7% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 17 | 1.4% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 17 | 1.4% |
| #5 | Florida | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Texas | | 5 | 0.4% |
33 of 1,220 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.7% of nationwide
- New York 1.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.4% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.4% of nationwide
- Florida 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1943–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.