Tamara (given name)

Tamara
Pronunciation	/təˈmɑːrə, təˈmɛərə, ˈtæmərə/[1]
Gender	Feminine
Origin
Word/name	Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Hindi and Sanskrit
Meaning	date (the fruit), date palm, palm tree
Other names
Related names	Tammy, Tamy, Tami, Tammii, Tam, Tamar, Tamra, Tammara, Thamar, Themar, Tammie and Toma

Tamara is a feminine given name of Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Hindi, Sanskrit and Russian origins. It means date, date palm or palm tree and it is derived from biblical name Tamar (Hebrew: תמר tamar) and in the Arabic from the singular form Tamra (Arabic: تَمْرَة tamrah) and the plural form Tamar (Arabic: تَمْر tamr). It used to be a common name in the 1970s in the English-speaking world. The variant, Tamar, is the second most popular name in Israel; it is also popular in Russia.

Etymology

Tamara means date, date palm or palm tree and it is derived from biblical name Tamar (Hebrew: תמר tamar) and in the Arabic from the singular form Tamra (Arabic: تَمْرَة tamrah) and the plural form Tamar (Arabic: تَمْر tamr). Tamara also has Spanish roots, meaning brushwood, and Sanskrit roots, meaning water.[2] In Russian it means beauty and grace and it is typically associated with the queen Tamar of Georgia.[3][4] In Hindi (Hindi: तामर tāmara) the name Tamara means spice.[5][6]

In the Bible, the name Tamar is associated with two female characters: one, the daughter-in-law of Judah, Tamar, and the other, the daughter of King David and full sister of Absalom, Tamar. The latter Tamar was raped by her half-brother Amnon, leading Absalom to later kill him. Absalom also named his daughter Tamar, who is described as a woman of great beauty, possibly contributing to the name's popularity.[7]

Variations of the name Tamara include Tamera, Tamra, and Tammara in English, while biblical equivalents are Tamar, Thamar, and Themar. Tamara can also be shortened to diminutives such as Tami, Tammi, Tammie, and Tammy in English, and Toma in Russian.[8][9]

Popularity

It began to be used in the English-speaking world in the 1930s and it peaked in the 1970s. In the 1980s it was specially used by Black Americans.[10] In the United States, the name was fairly common from the late 1950s to mid 1990s, bolstered by the popularity of the film Tammy and the Bachelor and its theme song.[11][12] In the US the most girls named Tamara were born in 1970s and the number of Tamaras born per year was greater than 1,000 as late as 1996.[13] The name, as of 2023, is fairly uncommon in the US: in 2010, the name fell off the Top 1000 Social Security Administration baby names list, with fewer than 250 baby girls named Tamara that year.[12] Tamar(a) was once the most popular name for girls in Israel, in 2022 it dropped to second.[14][15] Tamara is top 320 of most popular names in Australia since 1930s. being specially popular during the 1970s until the 1990s.[16][17] In Spain it was a popular a name in the 1980s, this might have been because of Isabel Preysler and Carlos Falcó's child named Tamara Falcó.[18] It is a popular name in Russia and it occurs with frequency in Russian literature.[18][10] It is also a common name in Central and Eastern European countries.[17]

Notable people with the given name

Tamara Adrián, Venezuelan politician
Tamara Al-Gabbani, Middle Eastern fashion designer
Tamara Arciuch, Polish actress
Tamara Bleszynski, Indonesian actress, singer, and model
Tamara Braun, American soap opera actress
Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress
Tamara Bunke, better known as Tania the Guerrilla, a communist revolutionary
Tamara Danz, German rock singer
Tamāra Dauniene, Latvian basketball player
Tamara Degtyaryova, Russian stage, television and film actress
Tamara Dobson, African-American actress and model
Tamara Drasin, Ukrainian-born singer-actress
Tamara Duisenova, Kazakh politician
Tamara Ecclestone, English-Serbian socialite, television personality and model
Tamara Feldman, American actress
Tamara Finkelstein, British civil servant
Tamara Frolova, Russian politician
Tamara Georgijev, Serbian handball player
Tamara Gorski, Canadian actress
Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Georgian-Russian singer, actress and composer
Kera Tamara, known as Tamara Hejtan, Bulgarian princess
Tamara Jaber, Lebanese-Australian singer and songwriter
Tamara Johnson, American indoor volleyball player
Tamara Jones, singer and actress
Tamara Karsavina, Russian ballerina
Tamara Maria Kler, Swiss DJ known by her stage name Dinka
Tamara Larrea, Cuban beach volleyball player
Tamara de Lempicka, Polish art deco painter
Tamara Levitt, Canadian author, mindfulness instructor, and voice-over artist
Tamara Makarova, Russian-Soviet actress
Tamara Manukova, Belarusian politician
Tamara Marthe, known as Shy'm, French singer
Tamara McKinney, American skier
Tamara Mello, American actress
Tamara Mellon, president and founder of designer shoes company Jimmy Choo
Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist and reality TV star
Tamara Metal, Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team
Tamara Mkheidze, Georgian arachnologist
Tamara Morávková, Slovak footballer
Tamara Moskvina, Russian pairs figure skating coach
Tamara Moss, Indian model
Tamara Gräfin von Nayhauß, German television presenter
Tamara Nowitzki (born 1976), Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia
Tamara Pamyatnykh, Soviet fighter pilot during the Second World War
Tamara Radočaj (born 1987), Serbian basketball player
Tamara Rojo (born 1974), Spanish ballet dancer, artistic director of English National Ballet
Tamara Salman, Iraqi-born designer
Tamara Samsonova, Russian murderer and suspected serial killer
Tamara Macarena Valcárcel Serrano, Spanish singer known as Tamara
Tamara Sher, American psychologist
Tamara Sinyavskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano
Tamara Sivakova, Paralympian athlete from Belarus
Tamara Sky, DJ and model
Tamara Smart, English actress
Tamara Stohlová, Slovak politician
Tamara Sujú, Venezuelan activist
Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress
Tamara Todevska, Macedonian pop singer
Tamara Toumanova, Georgian-Armenian ballerina and actress
Tamara Tunie, American actress
Tamara Diane Wimer, known as Isis Gee, American singer
Tamara Witmer, American actress and model

Fictional characters with the given name

Tamara, in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
Princess Tamara, in the 1829/1839 poem Demon by Mikhail Lermontov
Tamara, in Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders
Tamara Chen, in Scott Pilgrim
Tamara Jacobs, in Dawson's Creek
Tamara Riley, the main protagonist in Tamara
Tamara, the Queen of Goths, in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

References

Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
"Tamara - Baby Name Meaning, Origin and Popularity". www.thebump.com. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
Dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. London : Claremont Books. 1995. ISBN 978-1-85471-707-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
"Significado do nome Tamara". Crescer (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-29.
Loughead, Flora Haines (1966). Dictionary of given names with origins and meanings. Internet Archive. Glendale, Calif., Arthur H. Clark.
Kolatch, Alfred J.; Kolatch, Alfred J. (1990). Dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. New York, NY : Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0-399-51633-7.
Hanks, Patrick (2006). A dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
Campbell, Mike. "Names Related to the name Tamara". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
Webster's dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. New York City : Galahad Books. 1981. ISBN 978-0-88365-492-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Dunkling, Leslie (1984). The Facts on file dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications. ISBN 978-0-87196-274-4.
"Baby names that gained the most popularity the year you were born". Stacker. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
"Popular Baby Names". www.ssa.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
"Girl Name Tamara - Trends, Comments and Popularity of Tamara".
Zaltzman, Lior (2023-09-19). "The 20 Most Popular Jewish Baby Names in Israel". Kveller. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
Staff, Toi (6 October 2016). "Israel's top baby names are Muhammad, Tamar".
Nicholas, Josh. "Close call: most popular Australian baby names of the past century revealed". the Guardian. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
"Popularity for the name Tamara - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
"Significado del nombre Tamara: origen e historia - Nombres de niña". Ser Padres (in Spanish). 2023-08-04. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

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[1] Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.

[2] "Tamara - Baby Name Meaning, Origin and Popularity". www.thebump.com. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[3] Dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. London : Claremont Books. 1995. ISBN 978-1-85471-707-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[4] "Significado do nome Tamara". Crescer (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[5] Loughead, Flora Haines (1966). Dictionary of given names with origins and meanings. Internet Archive. Glendale, Calif., Arthur H. Clark.

[6] Kolatch, Alfred J.; Kolatch, Alfred J. (1990). Dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. New York, NY : Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0-399-51633-7.

[7] Hanks, Patrick (2006). A dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.

[8] Campbell, Mike. "Names Related to the name Tamara". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[9] Webster's dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. New York City : Galahad Books. 1981. ISBN 978-0-88365-492-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[:2-10] Dunkling, Leslie (1984). The Facts on file dictionary of first names. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications. ISBN 978-0-87196-274-4.

[11] "Baby names that gained the most popularity the year you were born". Stacker. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[:1-12] "Popular Baby Names". www.ssa.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[13] "Girl Name Tamara - Trends, Comments and Popularity of Tamara".

[14] Zaltzman, Lior (2023-09-19). "The 20 Most Popular Jewish Baby Names in Israel". Kveller. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[15] Staff, Toi (6 October 2016). "Israel's top baby names are Muhammad, Tamar".

[16] Nicholas, Josh. "Close call: most popular Australian baby names of the past century revealed". the Guardian. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[:3-17] "Popularity for the name Tamara - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 2024-04-29.

[:0-18] "Significado del nombre Tamara: origen e historia - Nombres de niña". Ser Padres (in Spanish). 2023-08-04. Retrieved 2024-04-29.