Tamira as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tamira

What is the meaning of the name Tamira ?

The baby name Tamira is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tuh-MEER-uh.

Tamira is African American, Hebrew in Origin.

Tamira is best explained as an English spelling of Hebrew תְּמִירָה (temirah), the feminine form of תָּמִיר (tamir), tall, upright, or stately. The root belongs to Hebrew T-M-R, the same consonantal family as תָּמָר (tamar), date palm, a tree used as a natural image of height. Morphologically, the final -a represents the regular feminine ending, turning the masculine adjective Tamir into a feminine name form.

As a given name, Tamira is much newer than Tamar and Tamara, whose biblical and Georgian royal associations made them familiar in Jewish, Christian, and Slavic settings. U.S. records show Tamira as a rare 20th-century female name, with a visible African American association in 2020 Census first-name data: Black or African American bearers formed the largest reported group. Modern variants and close forms include Temira, Tamirah, Tamir, Tamar, and Tamara; Austrian tennis player Tamira Paszek gives the spelling its clearest public bearer.