How Many People Are Named Tamra?

12,380

people named Tamra are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 27,607 people in the US has this name

Based on 13,715 babies named Tamra in Social Security records from 1937 to 2019, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,160

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,186

See the top 100

Peak Year

1959

824 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: TAM-rə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Contracted form of TAMARA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Tamra in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Tamra alive today is about 53 years old, and 58% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 44 and 63 in 2025.

Under 30 718
5.8%
30 to 59 7,218
58.3%
60 and over 4,445
35.9%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Tamra first appears in the records in 1937 and was given most often in 1959, to 824 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2019.

Babies given the name each year, 1937 to 2019

🏆 Rank History

Tamra has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #327, in 1959.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#327 (1959)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#448 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Tamra alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Tamra were born in California than in any other state: about 1,496 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tamra was given 7.2 times as often in Utah, 3.6 times in Idaho and 2.7 times in Oklahoma.

California 1,496
Texas 884
Ohio 576
Michigan 464
Utah 463
Illinois 450
Indiana 357
Missouri 349
Washington 316
Oklahoma 303
Minnesota 280
Florida 263
Iowa 247
Kansas 232
New York 221
North Carolina 203
Wisconsin 193
Pennsylvania 192
Oregon 191
Colorado 175
Kentucky 145
Tennessee 131
Virginia 131
Arizona 124
West Virginia 115
Idaho 114
Arkansas 98
Georgia 88
Alabama 79
South Dakota 72
Louisiana 64
South Carolina 59
Nebraska 57
New Jersey 48
North Dakota 42
Massachusetts 39
New Mexico 34
Maryland 22
Mississippi 19
Montana 18
Wyoming 16
Hawaii 13
Maine 10
Connecticut 9
Nevada 4
District of Columbia 4

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