Tamarra
Tamarra was last recorded in 2013, when 10 babies were given it; 1,220 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Tamarra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 34 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamarra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamarra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,923, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1980, the peak
Tamarra peaked in 1980, when 44 girls were given it, #2,276 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,923 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,038 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,542 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,561 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,508 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,960 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,317 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,282 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,639 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,227 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 9 | #11,001 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,025 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,799 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,396 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,512 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,799 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,924 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,276 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,099 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,222 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,213 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,190 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,364 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,656 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,158 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,410 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,769 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,403 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,224 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,644 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,408 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,605 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,276 | 26.5 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,518 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,467 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,250 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,428 | 23.2 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,317 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,338 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,556 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,165 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,368 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,928 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,941 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,962 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,062 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,028 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,387 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,321 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,166 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,496 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,983 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,415 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,090 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,473 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,667 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,789 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,144 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,601 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,305 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,345 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,201 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,238 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,622 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,638 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamarra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamarra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamarra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamarra, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,220 Americans ever recorded as Tamarra. The median Tamarra alive today is 45 years old; half are between 34 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,034 people named Tamarra (1,030 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 117 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 424 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 425 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 166 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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).
How common is the spelling Tamarra?
Tamarra is a less common spelling of Tamara: SSA has recorded 1,220 Tamarra and 131,703 Tamara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 169,197 babies since 1880, Tamarra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 135 babies recorded by SSA was a Tamarra (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 Tamarra
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 Tamarra and names like it
- Compare Tamarra and TamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTamarra peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamarra since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Tamarra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tamarra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.