How rare is the name Tamar?

7,142 people in the United States have the first name Tamar, about 1 in 42,289. It ranks #3,087 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TAMAR

#3,087

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,142
About
1 in 42,289
This common or more
81.6%
Who bears it

Of the 7,142 people named Tamar, 61.3% reported their origin as White, 27.4% as Black and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 90.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tamar peaked in 1977, when 149 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152025
Peak year
1977
Births that year
149
In 2025*
73 ▼51%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 7,044 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tamar by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,830. The largest share of babies named Tamar, 26.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1910s#11,6155
1920s#12,17210
1930s#7,06241
1940s#5,15896
1950s#3,527249
1960s#2,339606
1970s#1,8301,130
1980s#1,8991,274
1990s#2,5141,108
2000s#2,9981,165
2010s#3,741925
2020s#4,379435
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–451.3%
Baby boom 1946–647.8%
Generation X 1965–8022.7%
Millennials 1981–9626.9%
Generation Z 1997–1226%
2013 and later15.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tamar is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tamar has been most common in New York (5.1×), New Jersey (4×), and California (2.2×), and least common in Georgia (0.34×).

3,717 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Tamar

1 other first name also has 7,142 people.

#3,087 Aja · 7,142

Either side of Tamar

#3,086 Yajaira · 7,143#3,087 Aja · 7,142#3,089 Korbin · 7,141#3,090 Luella · 7,137

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tamar, most common first.

#439 Tamara · 128,711#8,041 Tamir · 1,830#8,403 Tamer · 1,726#12,874 Tamari · 952

Also a last name

As a last name, Tamar ranks #156,540 of 156,621, with 96 people. See Tamar as a last name

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