Tamara

My name is Tamara...most of my life, I didn't like my name because it made me feel old for some reason. I am 61 yrs old now and I love my name and very proud of it...For so many years having to correct people, and then just simply letting them call me however they pronounced...but through the yrs I am back to correcting them because my name is beautiful and strong and not very popular. I have ALWAYS been different than most people and I NEVER fit in anywhere, it seems...use to bother me and I couldn't figure out why...but as I get older I have a better understanding and it fills my heart with more joy than ever...I am me, people may call me weird, all my life, but that is ok, I love that I am different...makes me special along with my precious name. Thanks mom. I love you!

My name is Tamara. I once got a name meaning poster page from a vendor on a street in Orlando, Florida on a vacay at the age of five. Any name meaning (not just my own) has always had such allure since then.

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The 8"x 11" landscape paper recited:

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Tamara

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Name meaning: Hebrew for "Palm Tree or "Spice Tree"

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A girl who is not afraid to go after what she wants.
A girl who is brave, yet sensitive & kind.
A girl who loves family, but also paves an independent path.
She is all heart, and also very intelligent.

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I've loved my name ever since! I haven't heard of too many Tamara's or come across many, as it's not a highly popular name. But, any Tamara I have ever met, she reminds me of me-self.

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but to me this sounds much too like the word “tomorrow” in the regional accent where I’m from. Not keen.

I just had my daughter a month ago and named her Tamara (ta-mah-rah). It was a name that after months of trying to figure it out, just came to her dad and I one night and felt perfect ever since. I would say it has a natural feeling, kind of native-like. Ever since then we have had countless people calling her tam-AIR-uh and ta-mer-uh. It's annoying for sure but I love the name Tamara and couldn't resist naming my first daughter it.

I love Tamara! Perfect, the way it sounds, looks!

Good quality name! I like this name a lot. It's classic, has a good look and also a good sound. Tamara is a great name!

It's okay, but it sounds like Tomorrow with a Texan accent. Ta-MAR-ruh!

If you wanted to name your child Tiara, name them this instead.

I think this is pretty.

Beautiful name. Tammy is a good nickname for Tamara.

Pretty.

My father always told me I was named after a beautiful Spanish Flamenco dancer he and my mother watched in Mexico. I have always loved my name, Tamara, and like so many others with that moniker had headaches all through school and college with people pronouncing it differently than it was intended by my parents, which was TAM-a-ra. I also hated being called Tammy, but lived with it to make others more comfortable. I did ask people to call me Tam and that seemed to work well. I was born in 1951, so this name was really not around much then and until I was in my 30’s I never met anyone else with the name. This website has been great to find out the background on my name as well as many others.

My name is Tamara, I have always considered my name to be different, (it’s pronounced tamahrah) my mom would constantly correct teachers on how to say my name and always tell them not to call me Tammy, it has always been pronounced wrong by most but it never bothered me, my name is who I am and I love it!

I do believe that Tamara is beautiful. My uncle named my sister and she is not trashy at all.

This is my name and though I now couldn't picture myself not being named Tamara, this name has given me numerous headaches when attempting to correct people's pronunciation, vastly Anglophones. They have a way of converting the middle a into an e which makes it sound Tah-Mare-ah and that is bad. I guess that's why some of the above don't think too much of it because English kills this name and that's the root of the problem. I find my name very elegant and strong, it's not being too common an advantage. In Spanish, Tamara sounds way better and captures the classy, strong and feminine ring of it. And contrary to those above, I like being called Tamy every once and then, though I like it written with just one m because consistently, my name only has one m not two. Even if people think my name is trashy, I don't care now. Took me a long time to embrace my name and negative comments won't make me dislike it again.

My older sister's name is Tamara and I think it's a really elegant name! It means palm tree and she is almost 6 foot tall so it suits her well. It sounds exotic too, you don't hear it very often so I like the fact that it's a fairly unique name!

Reminds me of tomato.

My name is Tamara, pronounced Tam-ruh. My boss pronounces it Tam-AH-rah which I think is awesome and the way she says it makes it even more beautiful. I also love that most people have never met anyone named Tamara or have only known maybe one or two other people with the same name. I never liked the nickname Tammy and only one person calls me that... I let him get away with it because he is just teasing and very kind about it. I also have a bachelors degree, a great job as an accountant, and am very conservative. My parents always called me Tamara and were respectful that I did not like being called Tammy although my brother would call me that when we were kids to tease me... and it worked, it upset me for sure lol!

Very beautiful girls name. A name that sounds pretty and not used too much. I like it :-)

My name is Tamara and I love my name. Since my dad didn't like my name and for whatever reason couldn't say it correctly he nicknamed me Tammy. I have read the previous comments and disagree with a lot of them. My nickname isn't trailer trashy because I am not, I am quite the opposite. However I do live up to the meaning I am spicy like a spice, my family says I am a spitfire though. It is also pronounced in MY family TAH-MARE-RUH. Although no one calls me that they stick to Tammy, which is cool. Even my job does the same. So no I am not trailer trashy or young and stupid like some comments suggests. I am a well educated medical professional with 1 son and 1 dog and 2 cats who enjoys life and what it offers.

I've known lots of Tamara's. It reminds me of "tomato".

I once had a classmate named Tamara, who pronounced it "tuh-MARE-uh." I feel so sorry for her, because our substitute teachers never pronounced her name correctly! Most substitute teachers thought it was "TAM-er-uh," though one teacher thought it was "tuh-MAR-uh." The teacher would always say Tamara incorrectly, and then the entire class would say, "tuh-MARE-uh!" It seemed hilarious at the time.

A classy, beautiful name. :-)

Tamara is my middle name and my mother wanted it pronounced TA-Mara. It's a middle name, so, I really never used it much (my first name is Stephanie). I did, though, have to correct one of my teachers who had to pronounce it at my high school graduation. I never liked Tamra or Tamera. I always thought Mara would be a good nickname.

Love Tamara. Hate Tammy.

My daughter's name is Tamara Michelle. She is 25. I named her this because I thought it was pretty and melodious. However, we always called her Tammy. I liked that name from the song Tammy sung by Debbie Reynolds, from the Tammy movie starring Sandra Dee. I also thought that she could go by either Tammy or if she decided she needed a more professional sounding name once she started her career. She had it in Tamara. However, we've always had a problem with the pronunciation of her full name. We pronounce it Ta mar ah. Not Tam er ah. I have a brother, Mark, and we don't say Merk. So, don't know why the vowels aren't pronounced the way they are supposed to be by so many. I also think it depends of the US you live in as to how Tammy sounds. Maybe in the south possibly, Tammy may sound trashy, but not on the west coast.

It's my name. I don't think it's trashy but I would prefer something else for a name. It means date palm and lady princess I heard somewhere.

I like this name, but I would never use it because I would be afraid people would shorten it to Tammy, which I hate. To me, Tammy is a very trashy name.

This name has sounded trashy to me for a long time. It just always sort of makes me think of worn out trailer park or redneck wives who wear clothes from 10 years earlier that have gotten too youthful and too tight for them and who speak like middle school dropouts. And that despite the fact that Russian names generally don't wind up sounding like that. I guess Americans have a way of ruining certain names. My guess is that names ending in -lene/een once sounded sophisticated. When they catch on in the wrong places and become popular with the wrong people, they're ruined for decades.

Mara (MARE-ah or MAR-ah, depending on how Tamara is pronounced) makes a much nicer alternative to Tammy as a nickname.

This name reminds me of a sexy, strong, intellectual woman. I think it is very unique and exotic sounding.

Tamara is a very beautiful and elegant name.

I love this name, because it is my favourite caretaker from kindergarten's name. I really cared for her. It's also one of my character's names (:P) and she's my main character's best friend. She's spunky, originial, rebellious, full of life and very joyful. Tamara is a great name.

This name has never grown on to me much. It has always reminded me either of the girl from the show 'Sister Sister' (which ironically my sister used to watch!) or of 'Tammy' a name that sounds too ickish for me. It is actually Hebrew and means "palm tree" or "bitterness" at least that's what I've heard. It's ok for a character but never really liked it for anyone, my opinion though.

TAMARA is a character in my story. She is a reckless, street-smart 12-year-old who lives in a treehouse, because she supposedly is an orphan. The character gets into a lot of trouble all the time and is known for her ill-mannered, sarcastic wit. I named her this because this is a a form of the Biblical name TAMAR which meant "spice" or "palm tree" and the comparision is that she is like spice and spikey like a palm tree (in a simile, of course); there was also a Tamar in the Old Testament who got her own way and could be said she was one brash girl. Although, I was thinking of naming her Tamar but then again, for an American or English book, it wouldn't sound too proper for a character who is half-Caucasian, plus it wouldn't be fair to just use it loosely since it's a name from the Scriptures. TAMARA could also be spelt TAMARAH and it has a unique, mysterious sounding.

I love this name! And it's WAY better than Ashlee, Alexis, Sam or Jessica. It's unique and rare. A nice nickname can be "Tams" or "Tamis."

This sounds like a name for a rebellious, free-spirited or spunky girl. I still like it though, it's cute and strong-sounding.

I know a nice girl named Tamara but I never cared for the name much, has always sounded sort of sickly and that includes its cutesy nick Tammy.