MEANING & HISTORY
What does Tamara mean?
Tamara belongs to the biblical Tamar family, from Hebrew tamar, date palm. Russian and other Slavic forms helped transmit Tamara into English and other languages.
The plant supplies the direct root, while grace or beauty are later symbolic interpretations. The longer a-ending form has its own established name history.
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Origin and name formation
Hebrew
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English
Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára), name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר (tāmār, “date palm”).
A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.
Wiktionary: Tamara (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spanish
a female given name, equivalent to English Tamar or Tamara
Wiktionary: Tamara (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Tamara
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Tamara Benitez
Filipina cinematographer
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Names in this collection
- Tamera♀Variant of Tamara; date-palm family
- Mara♀Bitter in Hebrew, or a Maria/Tamara short form
- Sahara·As a English geographical-name usage word: the North African desert name
- Tahira♀Pure; virtuous
- Tara♀Irish place-name form; also Sanskrit star
- Barbara♀Foreign or unfamiliar
- Cara♀Beloved in Italian or friend in Irish
- Ciara♀Irish feminine form of Ciar; dark
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Recorded use
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- 1 person records with this given name · Q936646 · CC0
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