Name: Tamara
Gender: Female
Usage: Tamara, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Tamara are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Tamara across the world, see Tamar.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Tamara is: Palm tree.
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Numerology of the first name Tamara: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Tamara is ranked on the 503rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 1206800 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.017% of the population. The name Tamara has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Tamara for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Tamara is a female given name most commonly derived from the Biblical name "Tamar", meaning date palm tree. In countries like Georgia, Russia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, and the Czech Republic it has been a common name for centuries. In Australia it was very popular from the 1960s to 1990s.
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 (Tammy is commonly a nickname for Tamara). In the US the most girls named Tamara were born in 1970 and the number of Tamaras born per year was greater than 1,000 as late as 1996.
The name is now fairly uncommon in the US: in 2010, the name fell off the Top 1000 SSA Baby Names list, with fewer than 250 baby girls named Tamara that year.
In ancient Britain, Tamara was the goddess of rivers and streams. The River Tamar that forms the border between Devon and Cornwall derives its name from this spirit.
Russian: probably derived from the Hebrew name Tamar ‘date palm’, with the addition of the feminine suffix -a. The name Tamar is borne in the Bible by two female characters: the daughter-in-law of Judah and a daughter of King David (2 Samuel 13), the full sister of Absalom, who is raped by her half-brother Amnon, for which Absalom kills him. It is rather surprising, therefore, that it should have given rise to such a popular given name. However, Absalom himself later has a daughter named Tamar, who is referred to as ‘a woman of a fair countenance’ (2 Samuel 14: 27), and the name may derive its popularity from this reference.
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