Tamar
#2,438 for girls in 2025, 73 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #8,921
Given to girls 87.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 133 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,158since 1915
Tamar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,438 | 73 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #2,510 | 71 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,608 | 66 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #2,729 | 62 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,635 | 66 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #2,115 | 90 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #2,274 | 82 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #2,184 | 91 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #2,198 | 90 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #2,248 | 85 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #1,733 | 109 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #1,750 | 103 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #1,861 | 94 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #1,744 | 100 | #2,298 | 42 |
| 1999 | #1,621 | 103 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #1,762 | 89 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #1,656 | 95 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #1,656 | 92 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #1,614 | 92 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #1,744 | 84 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #1,801 | 81 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #1,565 | 99 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #1,752 | 82 | #3,224 | 19 |
| 1990 | #1,733 | 84 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #1,414 | 105 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #1,345 | 106 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #1,446 | 90 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #1,149 | 124 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #1,112 | 124 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #1,090 | 126 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #1,131 | 124 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #1,145 | 119 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #1,328 | 95 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #1,051 | 132 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #1,141 | 112 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #1,009 | 133 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #1,149 | 101 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #1,219 | 94 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #1,124 | 103 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #1,169 | 93 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #1,404 | 70 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #1,292 | 85 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,320 | 80 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #1,385 | 69 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,301 | 72 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,478 | 57 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,225 | 77 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,218 | 78 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,686 | 47 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,598 | 50 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,525 | 54 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,580 | 51 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,561 | 51 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,881 | 35 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,588 | 45 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,067 | 28 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,103 | 27 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,341 | 22 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,314 | 19 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,436 | 17 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,410 | 17 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tamar! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tamar
- 76 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,438)
- 341 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #2,438)
- 202 spots since 2015 (#2,236 → #2,438)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1977 at #1,009 (133 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 33 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,527 girls born in 1977 were named Tamar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,017 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.9% of all girls named Tamar (1,103) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,274 |
| 1920s | 10 | #4,570 (1929) | #4,769 |
| 1930s | 41 | #3,145 (1939) | #3,940 |
| 1940s | 96 | #2,410 (1949) | #3,383 |
| 1950s | 249 | #1,588 (1958) | #2,227 |
| 1960s | 606 | #1,218 (1965) | #1,456 |
| 1970s | 1,003 | #1,009 (1977) | #1,188 |
| 1980s | 1,103 | #1,090 (1983) | #1,258 |
| 1990s | 901 | #1,565 (1992) | #1,690 |
| 2000s | 917 | #1,733 (2003) | #2,052 |
| 2010s | 811 | #1,866 (2013) | #2,331 |
| 2020s | 416 | #2,362 (2024) | #2,536 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tamar in 1967
Top girls' names in 1967
More about 1967
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1,651,025 girls got a published name in 1967; 1 in 28,965 of them was named Tamar, which outranked 81.2% of the 7,852 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,460Tatia58
- #1,460Tommy58
- #1,460Twanda58
- #1,478Tamar57
- #1,478Abbie57
- #1,478Alena57
- #1,478Annalisa57
- #1,495Alanna56
- #1,495Alysia56
- #1,495Arnetta56
Tied with 16 names at #1,478; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.