Given name
Thamar
“from the palm tree”
In French use, Thamar has a related form in Tamar. One Hebrew interpretation is “from the palm tree.”
Original Hebrewתמר
Meaning & origin
What it means
In French use, Thamar has a related form in Tamar. One Hebrew interpretation is “from the palm tree.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In French use, Thamar has a related form in Tamar. An origin associated with Tamar is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From the Hebrew noun tamar (תמר), “palm tree.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Thamar appears in Matthew 1:3.
From biblical name research
Thamar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 90
- 5 boys · 85 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 10 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 girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 313 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thamar’s family of names
In Latin usage, Thamar has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Tamara. In French usage, Thamar has a related form in Tamar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Thamar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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