Tamer
Tamer was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,828 among boys’ names; 832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamer mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Tamer is “a male given name which means “the one who is completely mannish””
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamer?
#11,828 among boys’ names, 2025
Tamer fell from #9,456 in 2015 to #11,828 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 3.5 per million.
31 babies in 2004, the peak
Tamer peaked in 2004, when 31 boys were given it, #3,207 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,828 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,949 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,590 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,457 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,676 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,852 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,583 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,545 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,456 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,268 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #7,483 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,985 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,171 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,318 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,722 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,872 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,879 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,084 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,797 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,207 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #5,009 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,675 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,104 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,356 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,569 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,613 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,245 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,187 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,084 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,091 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 23 | #3,019 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,822 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,975 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,761 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,425 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,189 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,482 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,091 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,814 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,693 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,601 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,586 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,386 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,589 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 15 | #3,006 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,053 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,026 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,937 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,216 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,537 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,448 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,317 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 832 Americans recorded as Tamer, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tamer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamer, and how old are they?
An estimated 770 Americans named Tamer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,726 people named Tamer (91 women and girls, 1,635 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,774 babies since 1880, Tamer is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 123 babies (4.9%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Tamer
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 Tamer and names like it
- Compare Tamer and TamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTamer peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamer since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Tamer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Tamer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tamer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.