Tamar
Tamar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 77 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 770.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1977133 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 6,968people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,083 girls have been named Tamar in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 133 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 18%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 885 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tamar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 10 | |
| 1930s | 41 | |
| 1940s | 96 | |
| 1950s | 249 | |
| 1960s | 606 | |
| 1970s | 1,003 | |
| 1980s | 1,102 | |
| 1990s | 901 | |
| 2000s | 916 | |
| 2010s | 811 | |
| 2020s | 343 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Tamar was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Tamar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Joyapeak 1990
- Joipeak 1981
- Septemberpeak 1980
- Holleypeak 1984
- Elissapeak 1979
- Timberlypeak 1994
- Ranapeak 1971
- Ranipeak 1971
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.