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Tamarai Tamarai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-mah-rai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Lotus"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Tamil)

A name that means "lotus".

Tamarai is from the Tamil tāmarai (தாமரை — lotus). Tamarai is one of the Tamil feminine flower names — central to traditional Tamil + Hindu cultural heritage.

Lotus.

The name in its native script.

தாமரை
Transliteration
Tāmarai
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.mə.raɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tamarai stands.

Tamarai 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.

Tamarais before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tamarai
Tamil lotus.

Names connected to Tamarai.

The number behind Tamarai.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tamarai reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.