Tamera
Tamera was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,800 among girls’ names; 14,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Tamera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 34 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamera mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamera is “a female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Tamara, popularized by actress Tamera Mowry in the 1990s.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamera?
#6,800 among girls’ names, 2025
Tamera fell from #3,427 in 2015 to #6,800 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.3 to 10.6 per million.
614 babies in 1959, the peak
Tamera peaked in 1959, when 614 girls were given it, #381 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,800 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,557 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,110 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,963 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,054 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,996 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,229 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,567 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,964 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,427 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,838 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,301 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,625 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,046 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,724 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,245 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,827 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,230 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,307 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,908 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,923 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,532 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,442 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,531 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 170 | #1,178 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 232 | #911 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 260 | #821 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 252 | #823 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 286 | #739 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 270 | #755 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 179 | #1,031 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,060 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,702 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,813 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,452 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 117 | #1,226 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 145 | #1,046 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 138 | #1,070 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 138 | #1,033 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 151 | #971 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 156 | #956 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 172 | #885 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 175 | #880 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 147 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 166 | #884 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 212 | #726 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 169 | #825 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 230 | #665 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 225 | #669 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 239 | #635 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 266 | #602 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 348 | #527 | 0.21 |
| 1970 | 408 | #492 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 452 | #457 | 0.27 |
| 1968 | 454 | #451 | 0.28 |
| 1967 | 482 | #427 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 503 | #415 | 0.30 |
| 1965 | 486 | #425 | 0.28 |
| 1964 | 588 | #402 | 0.31 |
| 1963 | 585 | #396 | 0.30 |
| 1962 | 570 | #405 | 0.29 |
| 1961 | 584 | #403 | 0.29 |
| 1960 | 556 | #409 | 0.27 |
| 1959 | 614 | #381 | 0.30 |
| 1958 | 450 | #449 | 0.22 |
| 1957 | 255 | #616 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,614 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,481 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,081 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,090 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamera, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 14,282 Americans ever recorded as Tamera. The median Tamera alive today is 55 years old; half are between 34 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 13,181 people named Tamera (13,167 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 41 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,850 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 466 |
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 Tamera born?
The states with the most babies named Tamera are California, Texas and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,323 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 811 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 675 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 613 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 598 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 528 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Washington | 375 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 358 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 336 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 324 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Tamera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamera is most over-represented in Utah: since 1940 it was given 2.3 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 Tamera 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 169,303 babies since 1880, Tamera is the second most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 135 babies (13%), again the second most given.
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 Tamera
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 Tamera and names like it
- Compare Tamera and TamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTamera peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamera since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Tamera.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamera alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.