Tamer
Tamer is an Arabic and Turkish given name and surname.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Tamer
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tamer is an Arabic and Turkish given name and surname.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Tamer
The earliest SSA record of Tamer as a baby boy name dates back to 1972, when 10 babies received it. 2004 was its biggest year on record, with 31 newborns named Tamer — #3,156 in the national rankings. About 27% of every Tamer on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Tamer last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 793 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Tamer
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Tamer. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Tamer
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About the name Tamer
Tamer is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 793 births in the dataset. Tamer's peak popularity came in 2004 when it ranked #3,156. Use the chart and map above to compare Tamer's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.