Girl name#1,131 of girl names
Tamera
Pronounced T AE1 M EH1 R AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1959
- 85 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Tamera?
Tamera is a girls' name, and first appears in 1940. It has been given to 14,401 children — the 1,131st most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 308 births across the past decade, against a peak of 614 in a single year. That peak was in 1959.
Tamerra is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Tamera and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Tamerra
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- T AE1 M EH1 R AH0 · T AE1 M IH1 R AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 110 · 110
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Tamera
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Tamera
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Tamera?
- Tamera ranks 1,131st among girls' names in US records, with 14,401 births since 1940. Over the past decade it accounts for 308.
- Is Tamera a unisex name?
- No. Tamera is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Tamera most popular?
- 1959, when 614 children were given the name. It has been in use for 85 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Tamera spelled?
- Tamerra. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.