Given name & surname
Tamer
Tamer is a surname from Arabic. It is used in English and Turkish.
Original Arabicتامر
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1907. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tamer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 832
- 799 boys · 33 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,832 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −51%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,832 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,726 as a first name in 2020; 708 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tamer’s family of names
Tamer has a related form in Tamara. In Arabic usage, Tamer is a transliteration of تامر.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tamer
- Tamer HassanBritish actorborn 1968
- Tamer HosnyEgyptian singer, actor, composer, director and songwriterborn 1977
- Tamer BayoumiTaekwondo practitionerborn 1982
- Tamer SeyamPalestinian footballer (born 1992)
- Tamer KaradağlıTurkish actor (born 1967)
- Tamer Haj MohamadSyrian footballerborn 1988
- Tamer LeventTurkish actor (born 1950)
- Tamer TunaTurkish association football player (born 1976)
- Tamer SalahPalestinian footballerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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