Tamra
Tamra was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 13,715 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,300 Americans named Tamra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 45 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamra is “a female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling of Tamara.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,705, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
824 babies in 1959, the peak
Tamra peaked in 1959, when 824 girls were given it, #327 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,705 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,658 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,185 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,786 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,440 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,926 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,111 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,570 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,878 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,840 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 20 | #6,775 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,557 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,676 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,813 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,119 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,078 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,848 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,309 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,769 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,465 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,237 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,386 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,858 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,545 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 101 | #1,539 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,719 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 124 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 134 | #1,257 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 145 | #1,180 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 151 | #1,105 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 169 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 192 | #886 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 224 | #769 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 217 | #779 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 216 | #752 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 200 | #794 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 208 | #785 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 228 | #729 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 220 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 248 | #688 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 215 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 214 | #724 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 246 | #631 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 276 | #590 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 324 | #520 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 296 | #556 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 347 | #503 | 0.23 |
| 1971 | 390 | #492 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 524 | #423 | 0.30 |
| 1969 | 567 | #399 | 0.34 |
| 1968 | 458 | #446 | 0.28 |
| 1967 | 407 | #469 | 0.25 |
| 1966 | 424 | #459 | 0.25 |
| 1965 | 394 | #478 | 0.22 |
| 1964 | 472 | #451 | 0.25 |
| 1963 | 506 | #432 | 0.26 |
| 1962 | 453 | #450 | 0.23 |
| 1961 | 493 | #441 | 0.24 |
| 1960 | 565 | #403 | 0.28 |
| 1959 | 824 | #327 | 0.41 |
| 1958 | 587 | #379 | 0.29 |
| 1957 | 244 | #626 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 84 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 69 | #1,217 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 75 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 62 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,248 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,662 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,209 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamra has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tamra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamra, and how old are they?
12,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 13,715 Americans ever recorded as Tamra. The median Tamra alive today is 56 years old; half are between 45 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 12,719 people named Tamra (12,707 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,719 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 82 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,970 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 587 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 53 |
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 Tamra born?
The states with the most babies named Tamra are California, Texas and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,652 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 954 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 644 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 535 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Michigan | 518 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 503 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 403 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 386 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Washington | 351 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Oklahoma | 330 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Tamra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamra is most over-represented in Utah: since 1937 it was given 4.5 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 Tamra 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, Tamra is the third most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 135 babies recorded by SSA was a Tamra (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 Tamra
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 Tamra and names like it
- Compare Tamra and TamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTamra peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamra since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Tamra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.