Tamar is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Tamar is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Tamar. In the SmartGenius ranking, Tamar is #2,128 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tamar.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Tamar are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Tamar is registered in 15 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Tamar live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 8,622 would turn around if you called the name Tamar across New York.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Tamar is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tamar and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tamar, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tamar
Tamar
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
M
A
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
M
A
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tamar sounds like this:
