girls:
85 births since 1979
#5631 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1982
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
90 births since 1979
#7649 (1st percentile)
The name Thamar is the #7,649 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 90 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,631 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1982.
Thamar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Thamar is available in 15 out of the 36 years between 1979 and 2014 (15 years for girls and 1 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 Thamar has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Thamar reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
For boys, Thamar reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #691) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thamar".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Thamar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.5% confident that Thamar is pronounced as THAY-mahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is THUH-mahr, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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