Given name · also Russian
Tamerlan
Tamerlan is a masculine given name from Russian, ultimately from Chechen.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tamerlan comes from Russian, and ultimately from Chechen.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Russian Тамерла́н, from Chechen Тамерлан.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tamerlan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Tamerlan
- Tamerlan BashaevRussian judokaborn 1996
- Tamerlan TmenovRussian judokaborn 1977
- Tamerlan TsarnaevChechen perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing (1986–2013)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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