Tamara is the Russian-Slavic elaboration of Tamar — from the Hebrew Tamar ("date palm") — a tree symbolic of grace and fruitfulness in the Hebrew Bible. "Auto-portrait dans la Bugatti verte" (1929) is among the most-reproduced Art Deco paintings. Tamara of Georgia (c.
Tamara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tamara reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.