Tamar

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tamar: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tamar: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #782 in 2000, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#782highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#944
1997	#1234
1998	#995
1999	#952
2000	#782
2001	#1520
2002	#2105
2003	#1129
2004	#1158
2005	#1796
2006	#1862
2007	#1854
2008	#1815
2009	#1411
2010	#1993
2011	#1903
2012	#2717
2013	#3536
2014	#1966
2015	#2070
2016	#2367
2017	#3229
2018	#2901
2019	#2040
2020	#2615
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#2346
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #944 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #782 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Tamar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 381 births with the name.

Tamar across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tamar's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#944 (1996)	#782 (2000)	#3695 (2024)	29 of 29	381 (1996–2024)	29 (2000)
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#2863 (1996)	#3651 (2004)	3 of 9	9 (1996–2004)	3 (1996)

Tamar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tamar in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	80	4 of 10	20
2000sbusiest	160	10 of 10	16
2010s	108	10 of 10	11
2020s	33	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Tamar appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #782 in England and Wales in 2000.

Tamar's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1862	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1158	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1129	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1234	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#944	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #782, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#3,695position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
29births registered in its largest year, 200025 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Tam · #2189, 13y
Tamara · #52, 68y
Tameem · #1596, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hebe · #782, 29y
Buster · #781, 29y
Jevon · #781, 26y
Tayyibah · #781, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Hebe · #782, 29y
Buster · #781, 29y
Jevon · #781, 26y
Tayyibah · #781, 28y

Tamar was ranked #782 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tamar and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tamar without appearing here.

Tamar moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #5687.
Geraldine Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3536 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1966 and #4684.
Shauna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #4709.
Kirsten Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #4056.

Moved ahead of Tamar

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #1785.
Finley Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #2942.
Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3192.

Moved the opposite way to Tamar

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Tamar

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tamar went from #944 to #3695 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #782 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tamar

Tamar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tamar across 2 official records

Tamar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tamar appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tamar

Tamar and the names beside it

Tamar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tamar

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Moved the same way as Tamar

Tamar at a glance

Tamar across 2 official records

Tamar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tamar appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tamar

Tamar and the names beside it

Tamar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tamar

Moved the opposite way to Tamar

Moved the same way as Tamar