given name
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most commonly derived from the Biblical name " Tamar" and in the
Arabic
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Arabic
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: تَمْرَة ''tamrah'') and the
plural
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form "Tamar" (
Arabic
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: تَمْر ''tamr''), meaning in both
Hebrew
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and Arabic the generic name of the fruit "
date
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Social activity
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palm tree
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Armenia
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Georgia
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Hungary
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North Macedonia
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Slovenia
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and
Ukraine
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it has been a common name for centuries. In Australia 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 fil ...
'' and its
theme song
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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.
Tamra
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History
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United Kingdom
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and Australia it is sometimes pronounced as ; and in
Russia
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/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
Shakespeare
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's ''
Titus Andronicus
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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
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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, American soap opera actress
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Tamara Buciuceanu
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, Romanian actress
* Tamara Bunke, better known as Tania the Guerrilla, a communist revolutionary
* Tamara Danz, German rock singer
* Tamara Degtyaryova (Russian: Тамара Васильевна Дегтярёва; 1944 – 2018), Russian stage, television and film actress
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Tamara Dobson
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, African-American actress and model
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Tamara Drasin
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Tamara Drasin is sometimes confused with two ...
, Ukrainian-born singer-actress
* Tamara Duisenova, Kazakh politician
* Tamara Ecclestone, English-Serbian socialite, television personality and model
* Tamara Feldman, American actress
* Tamara Frolova, Russian politician
* Tamara Georgijev, Serbian handball player
* Tamara Gorski, Canadian actor
* Tamara Gverdtsiteli, 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
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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 l ...
, Russian ballerina
* Tamara Maria Kler or Tamara Hunkeler, Swiss DJ known by her stage name
Dinka
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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 ...
voice-over
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artist
* Tamara Makarova, Russian-Soviet actress
* Tamara Marthe, known as
Shy'm
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, French singer
* Tamara McKinney, American skier
* Tamara Mello, American actress
* Tamara Mellon, president and founder of designer shoes company Jimmy Choo
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Tammy Faye Messner
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, American televangelist and reality TV star
* Tamara Metal, Israeli Olympic high jumper and
long jump
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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 ...
Tamara Macarena Valcárcel Serrano
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Rafael Antonio Salazar Motos (born ), commonly known as Rafael Farina (Rafael Salazar for his composing w ...
Tamara Todevska
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, Macedonian pop singer
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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
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Tamara Tunie
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, American actress
* Tamara Venit-Shelton, American author and professor of American history
* Tamara Diane Wimer, known as
Isis Gee
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, American singer
* Tamara Witmer, American actress and model
Palmyra
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