Given name

Thamara

Thamara is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Thamara isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Thamara through the years

Babies since 1880
252
0 boys · 252 girls
Most popular year
2003
17 babies
2025
5
#17,044 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02.557.510198020002025Highest share 20033.1
Thamara in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1973–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,044 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 488 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.

Thamara’s family of names

In Latin usage, Thamara has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Tamara.

Walk Thamara’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Thamara, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Damara

16Very rareSteady

>99% girls

Modern

Aakira

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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Shakyra

“grateful; thankful”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Tavaria

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Chakyra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Tatyanah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Thaila

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Dashira

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Thamara’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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