Tambra
Tambra was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 1,817 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Tambra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 50 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tambra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tambra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,924, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
126 babies in 1958, the peak
Tambra peaked in 1958, when 126 girls were given it, #919 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #13,924 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,625 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,465 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,722 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,990 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,974 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,373 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,514 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,491 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,469 | 11.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 26 | #3,510 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,542 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,503 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,600 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,539 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,575 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,523 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,598 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,986 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,377 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,596 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,655 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,607 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,429 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,883 | 30.9 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,049 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,752 | 31.3 |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,581 | 34.9 |
| 1969 | 68 | #1,419 | 40.3 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,221 | 49.4 |
| 1967 | 86 | #1,146 | 52.1 |
| 1966 | 60 | #1,429 | 35.5 |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,143 | 49.3 |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,278 | 40.1 |
| 1963 | 82 | #1,216 | 42.5 |
| 1962 | 100 | #1,089 | 50.8 |
| 1961 | 90 | #1,165 | 44.6 |
| 1960 | 96 | #1,101 | 47.5 |
| 1959 | 109 | #1,016 | 53.9 |
| 1958 | 126 | #919 | 62.6 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,609 | 22.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,884 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,679 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,306 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tambra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tambra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tambra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tambra, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,817 Americans ever recorded as Tambra. The median Tambra alive today is 59 years old; half are between 50 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 1,760 people named Tambra (1,755 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 626 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 704 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 293 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
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 Tambra born?
The states with the most babies named Tambra are California, Texas and Ohio, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 176 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 154 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 36 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 29 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tambra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tambra is most over-represented in Texas: since 1952 it was given 1.3 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 Tambra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,053 babies since 1880, Tambra is the most given (89% of them).
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 Tambra
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 Tambra and names like it
- Compare Tambra and TambriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTambra peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tambra since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Tambra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tambra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.