girls:
6k births since 1915
#2141 (63rd percentile)
boys:
884 births since 1970
#3704 (19th percentile)
overall:
6.9k births since 1915
#3248 (58th percentile)
The name Tamar is the #3,248 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,889 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 58.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,141 (62.5% percentile) for all time with 6,005 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #3,704 (19.2% percentile) for all time with 884 births since 1970.
Tamar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Tamar is available in 94 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (94 years for girls and 51 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tamar has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 90.9% of babies named Tamar were girls.
For girls, Tamar reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 16.7% percentile (ranked #640) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 81 births per million (ranked 16.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Tamar ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 49.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tamar reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #777) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tamar ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 19.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tamar".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Tamar.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Tamar", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Tamar.
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Tamar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Tamar is pronounced as TAY-mahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-MAHR, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Tamar? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Tamar. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Tamar, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like T EY1 M AA0 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker