Tamar

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin form of Θαμαρ (Thamar), a Greek form of the Hebrew name תָּמָר (Tamar) = 'date palm tree' [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Tamar
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Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Tamara
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Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Thamar
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Swedish
Thamara
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Swedish

For male forms see Tamir

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Tamararson Iceland

Female

Tamarardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Tamar
Genitive: Tamars
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Tamar
Genitive: Tamarin
Partitive: Tamaria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Tamar
Accusative: Tamar
Dative: Tamar
Genitive: Tamarar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Tamar
Genitive: Tamars
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Tamar
Genitive: Tamars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 22 people were named Tamar (percentage of first or only given name: 68 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
119 168 107 151 12 17
Denmark Denmark[7]
21
n.a.
20
n.a.
1
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
35
n.a.
27
n.a.
8
Iceland Iceland[9]
2 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
28
n.a.
24
n.a.
4
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Tamar.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/