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Baby name
Tamara
Girl
Origin of the name
Tamara comes, through Russian, from the Hebrew Tamar, “date palm.” Queen Tamar of Georgia made it famous.
Short-lived name
131,286births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 79rank at its peak, in 1970
Where babies named Tamara are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Tamara is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Tamara is most common in South Dakota (2.1 times), Idaho (1.8) and Oregon (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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