How rare is the name Tamra?

12,719 people in the United States have the first name Tamra, about 1 in 23,746. It ranks #2,109 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TAMRA

#2,109

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,719
About
1 in 23,746
This common or more
78.5%
Who bears it

Of the 12,719 people named Tamra, 84.8% reported their origin as White, 7.3% as Black and 3.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tamra peaked in 1959, when 824 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19372019
Peak year
1959
Births that year
824
In 2019
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 13,715 babies have been given the name since 1937. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tamra by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #795. The largest share of babies named Tamra, 40.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#9,55415
1940s#2,564331
1950s#1,1302,104
1960s#7954,744
1970s#1,0123,080
1980s#1,4272,025
1990s#2,773948
2000s#6,531373
2010s#17,31495
Silent Generation 1928–451.2%
Baby boom 1946–6434.8%
Generation X 1965–8040.5%
Millennials 1981–9618.8%
Generation Z 1997–124.3%
2013 and later0.4%

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

Where Tamra is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tamra has been most common in Utah (6.2×), Idaho (3.1×), and Kansas (2.3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.17×).

10,450 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 Tamra

1 other first name also has 12,719 people.

#2,109 Ernie · 12,719

Either side of Tamra

#2,108 Brandie · 12,730#2,109 Ernie · 12,719#2,111 Nicola · 12,714#2,112 Knox · 12,713

Spelled almost the same

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

#439 Tamara · 128,711#2,062 Tamera · 13,181#7,985 Tamyra · 1,845#8,331 Tamira · 1,745#18,652 Tamora · 576#19,389 Tammra · 546#37,708 Tamrah · 206#39,915 Tamura · 188

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