Tamara
- Meaning:
- Date palm, palm tree (from Hebrew Tamar)
- Origin:
- Hebrew
About the name Tamara
From Hebrew Tamar ('date palm'). Queen Tamar was a celebrated medieval ruler of Georgia; the name is popular across the Slavic world.
Popularity with newborns
Tamara has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.
People with this name in Croatia
5,369 people in Croatia are called Tamara, according to the 2021 census. That is #179 among all the names in Imenko.
Where the name is found
Tamara is recorded in every Croatian county.
Sources
Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.