Name meaning & stats
Tamara
Tamara means “date palm” (Hebrew origin). 131,375 US babies since 1940, peak 1970.
What it means
“date palm”
HebrewWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1970
131,375 US babies were named Tamara between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Tamara (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 75% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1970)