A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.
Origin
Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра, name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר.
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