Tamara is a female

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form "Tamra" (

: تَمْرَة ''tamrah'') and the

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form "Tamar" (

: تَمْر ''tamr''), meaning in both

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and

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it has been a common name for centuries. In

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it was very popular from the 1960s to 1990s. One of the most popular names in Russia. In the United States, the name was fairly common from the late 1950s to mid 1990s, bolstered by the popularity of the film ''

Tammy and the Bachelor ''Tammy and the Bachelor'' is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent. It is the first of the four Tammy fi ...

'' and its

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(Tammy is commonly a nickname for Tamara). In the US the most girls named Tamara were born in 1970 and the number of Tamaras born per year was greater than 1,000 as late as 1996. The name is now fairly uncommon in the US: in 2010, the name fell off the Top 1000 SSA Baby Names list, with fewer than 250 baby girls named Tamara that year.

Variants

Variations include Tamar, Temara,

Tamra Tamra ( ar, طمرة, he, טַמְרָה or ) is an Arab city in the North District of Israel located in the Lower Galilee north of the city of Shefa-Amr and approximately east of Acre. In it had a population of . History Tamra is an ancient ...

, Tamera, and Tamora. In

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Tamara is typically pronounced ; in the

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it is sometimes pronounced as ; and in

/tɐˈmarə/ (written Тама́ра). In Arabic it is pronounced /tæˈmæːrɐ/ (written تمارا or تمارة). The most common US nickname for Tamara is Tammy or Tam, but other nicknames exist, such as Tatia (თათია) Tamar (თამარ) Tamuna (თამუნა), Tamari (თამარი), Tamriko (თამრიკო) or Tako (თაკო) in Georgia, Toma in Russia, Mara, Tama or Tara. One notable occurrence of the name 'Tamora' in literature is a character in

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's ''

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''. In this play, Tamora is an ambitious and vengeful woman. Her sons plan to rape the daughter of Titus Andronicus and Tamora refuses the girl's pleas to stop them. Titus, in revenge for the brutal rape and disfigurement of his daughter, kills the young men, has them baked into a pie, and serves the pie to Tamora. Titus tells her that she has just eaten her sons immediately before killing her. The term 'tamarro' entered Italian through the Neapolitan dialect, meaning "lowlife", "scumbag", with a specific bent to people who have a very strong tendency to copy the general mode, have uncultured behaviour and tend to buy and flaunt expensive branded goods.https://unaparolaalgiorno.it/significato/tamarro https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/ricerca/tamarro/

Notable people

Tamara Adrián Tamara Adrián (born 20 February 1954, in Caracas) is a Venezuelan politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Venezuela in the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election.Tamara Al-Gabbani, Middle Eastern fashion designer * Tamara Bleszynski, Indonesian actress, singer, and model *

Tamara Braun Tamara Braun (born April 18, 1971) is an American actress known for her work on daytime television. She portrayed the role of Carly Corinthos on '' General Hospital'' from 2001–2005 and Reese Williams on '' All My Children'' from 2008 to 2009. ...

, American soap opera actress *

Tamara Buciuceanu Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez (10 August 1929 – 15 October 2019) was a Romanian stage, screen and television actress, as well a known TV personality. She was one of the most successful Romanian actresses of the 1960s–2000s who worked at Odeon The ...

, Romanian actress *

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, better known as Tania the Guerrilla, a communist revolutionary *

Tamara Danz Lenore Tamara Danz (14 December 1952 – 22 July 1996) was the lead singer and lyricist of the East German rock group Silly. She succumbed to breast cancer at the age of 43.

, German rock singer * Tamara Degtyaryova (Russian: Тамара Васильевна Дегтярёва; 1944 – 2018), Russian stage, television and film actress *

Tamara Dobson Tamara Janice Dobson (May 14, 1947 – October 2, 2006) was an American actress and model (person), fashion model. Beginning her career in modeling during the late 1960s, Dobson became best known for her title role as government agent Cleopatra "C ...

, African-American actress and model *

Tamara Drasin Tamara Drasin (c. 1905 – 22 February 1943), often credited as simply Tamara, was a singer and actress who introduced the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in the 1933 Broadway musical ''Roberta''. Tamara Drasin is sometimes confused with two ...

, Ukrainian-born singer-actress *

Tamara Duisenova Tamara Kasymqyzy Duisenova (, ; born 11 January 1965) is a Kazakh politician, Deputy Prime Minister (June 2023), and also served the post of the Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population from April 2022 to September 2023. She pre ...

, Kazakh politician *

Tamara Ecclestone Tamara Ecclestone Rutland (born 28 June 1984) is a British model, socialite, television personality, and the daughter of Bernie Ecclestone, the former chief executive of the Formula One Group, and model Slavica Ecclestone, Slavica Radić. Earl ...

, English-Serbian socialite, television personality and model *

Tamara Feldman Amara Zaragoza (born December 5, 1980), known by her stage name Tamara Feldman, is an American actress. Career Feldman is known for playing Marybeth Dunston in the horror film ''Hatchet'' (2006) and for her roles in the television series '' Small ...

, American actress * Tamara Frolova, Russian politician * Tamara Georgijev, Serbian handball player * Tamara Gorski, Canadian actor *

Tamara Gverdtsiteli Tamara Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli ( ka, თამარ გვერდწითელი}, russian: Тамара Михайловна Гвердцители; born 18 January 1962) is a Georgian-Russian singer and actress. Early life and educati ...

, Georgian-Russian singer, actress and composer, People's Artist of Ingushetia, Georgia and Russia. * Kera Tamara, known as Tamara Hejtan, Bulgarian princess, the daughter of the Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander * Tamara Jaber, Lebanese-Australian singer and songwriter * Tamara Johnson, American indoor volleyball player * Tamara Jones, singer and actress *

Tamara Karsavina Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and lat ...

, Russian ballerina * Tamara Maria Kler or Tamara Hunkeler, Swiss DJ known by her stage name

Dinka The Dinka people ( din, Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotes, Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan with a sizable diaspora population abroad. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Jonglei to Renk, South Sudan, Renk, in the region of Bahr el Gh ...

* Tamara Larrea, Cuban beach volleyball player *

Tamara de Lempicka Tamara Łempicka (born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska; 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art D ...

, Polish art deco painter *

Tamara Levitt Tamara Levitt (born December 2, 1971) is a Canadian author, mindfulness instructor, and voice-over artist most widely known as the narrator for the Calm app. Biography Levitt had a difficult relationship with her father growing up. At an ear ...

, Canadian author,

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instructor, and

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artist *

Tamara Makarova Tamara Fyodorovna Makarova (russian: Тама́ра Фёдоровна Мака́рова; 13 August 1907 – 19 January 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film actress and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1950) and Hero of Socialist La ...

, Russian-Soviet actress * Tamara Marthe, known as

Shy'm Tamara Marthe (born 28 November 1985), better known as Shy'm , is a French singer. She released her first album, '' Mes fantaisies'', in 2006 and has since released six more albums. She had three Platinum albums, including her number-one 2012 al ...

, French singer * Tamara McKinney, American skier * Tamara Mello, American actress *

Tamara Mellon Tamara Mellon (; born 7 July 1967) is a British fashion entrepreneur who co-founded the luxury footwear brand Jimmy Choo. Subsequently, Mellon founded her namesake luxury footwear brand, Tamara Mellon, with co-founder and CEO Jill Layfield and ...

, president and founder of designer shoes company Jimmy Choo *

Tammy Faye Messner Tamara Faye Messner (née LaValley, formerly Bakker ; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American evangelist, singer, author, talk show host, and television personality. She gained notice for her work with ''The PTL Club'', a televangelist ...

, American televangelist and reality TV star * Tamara Metal, Israeli Olympic

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er and

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er, and captain of the

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* Tamara Mkheidze, Georgian arachnologist *

Tamara Moskvina Tamara Nikolayevna Moskvina (, née Bratus, Братусь; born 26 June 1941) is a Russian pair skating coach and former competitive skater. Competing in pairs with Alexei Mishin, she became the 1969 World silver medalist and Soviet national ...

, Russian pairs figure skating coach * Tamara Moss, Indian model * Tamara Gräfin von Nayhauß, German television presenter *

Tamara Pamyatnykh Tamara Ustinovna Pamyatnykh (russian: Тамара Устиновна Памятных; 30 December 1919 – 26 July 2012) was a fighter pilot for the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War. Following an action while on patrol on 19 March 1 ...

, Soviet fighter pilot during the Second World War *

Tamara Radočaj Tamara Radočaj ( sr-cyr, Тамара Радочај, born 23 December 1987) is a Serbian professional women's basketball player who plays for Chevakata Vologda of the Russian Premier League. Standing at , she plays at the point guard position. ...

(born 1987), Serbian basketball player *

Tamara Rojo Tamara Rojo CBE (born 17 May 1974) is a Spanish ballet dancer. She is the English National Ballet's artistic director (2012–2022) and a lead principal dancer with the company. She was previously a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. She ...

(born 1974), Spanish ballet dancer, artistic director of

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* Tamara Salman, Iraqi-born designer * Tamara Samsonova, Russian murderer and suspected serial killer *

Tamara Macarena Valcárcel Serrano Tamara Macarena Valcárcel Serrano (born 27 June 1984) is a singer from Seville, Spain. She is the granddaughter of singer Rafael Farina Rafael Antonio Salazar Motos (born ), commonly known as Rafael Farina (Rafael Salazar for his composing w ...

(born 1984), Spanish singer known as Tamara * Tamara Sher, American psychologist * Tamara Sky, DJ and model *

Tamara Sinyavskaya Tamara Ilyinichna Sinyavskaya (russian: Тамара Ильинична Синявская; born 6 July 1943, in Moscow) is a Russian mezzo-soprano from the Bolshoi Theatre. She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. I ...

, Russian mezzo-soprano * Tamara Smart (born 2005), English actress *

Tamara Sujú Tamara Sujú Roa is a Venezuelan criminal lawyer and human rights specialist. Career Tamara is the founder of several NGOs, including ''Fundación Nueva Conciencia Nacional'', ''Damas en Blanco en Venezuela'' and ''Fundapresos'', an aid and ...

, Venezuelan activist *

Tamara Taylor Tamara Taylor (born September 27, 1970) is a Canadian actress. She appeared in the role of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, in the forensic crime drama ''Bones''. She also appeared in season seven of '' Marvel's Agents of S.H ...

, Canadian actress *

Tamara Todevska Tamara Todevska ( mk, Тамара Тодевска, pronounced , born 1 June 1985), also known mononymously as Tamara, is a Macedonian pop singer. Tamara began her music career in 2003 following the release of her debut studio album '' Sino' ...

, Macedonian pop singer *

Tamara Toumanova Tamara Toumanova ( ka, თამარა თუმანოვა; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the ag ...

, Georgian-Armenian ballerina and actress, active in Paris and Hollywood *

Tamara Tunie Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera ''As the World Turns'' (1987–1995, 2000–2007, 2009 ...

, American actress * Tamara Venit-Shelton, American author and professor of American history * Tamara Diane Wimer, known as

Isis Gee Tamara Diane Wimer (born October 11, 1972), known professionally as Tamara Gee (formerly Isis Gee), is an American pop singer and songwriter. She grew up singing and performing from the age of 5, and was a professional vocalist by the time she w ...

, American singer *

Tamara Witmer Tamara Witmer (born March 21, 1984) is an American model, actress and reality television star. She is best known for her appearance as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month, Miss August 2005, the cover girl for the October 2006 issue and appeared ...

, American actress and model

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