📖 About Tamara
Tamara is the Slavic and Georgian form of Hebrew Tamar ('date palm'), a symbol of beauty and uprightness in the ancient Near East; its greatest bearer is Queen Tamar the Great of Georgia (1160–1213), the only female ruler of Georgia and the most celebrated in its history; the name is also immortalised by Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, whose jewel-toned portraits defined 1920s Parisian glamour.
📍 Details
- OriginHebrew/Slavic
- Gender♀ Female
- MeaningVariant of Tamar. Date palm, graceful
🔀 Variants & Related Names
⭐ Famous People
- Queen Tamar the Great of Georgia — Queen regnant of Georgia (1160–1213), the only woman to rule the Georgian kingdom in her own right; her reign is considered the Georgian Golden Age — a period of military expansion, literary achievement, and national glory; she defeated the Seljuk Turks, expanded the kingdom's borders, and presided over a court of extraordinary culture; the national epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Rustaveli was dedicated to her; Georgians still regard her as the greatest ruler in their history.
- Tamara de Lempicka — Polish-born Art Deco painter (1898–1980), the defining visual artist of 1920s Parisian glamour and decadence; her bold, geometric, highly stylised portraits of semi-naked aristocratic women, painted in jewel-toned oils with an architectural precision derived from Cubism, became the quintessential images of interwar European luxury; she lived a glamorous bisexual bohemian life in Paris, then Hollywood; her works have sold for tens of millions at auction and are considered masterpieces of the Art Deco movement.
- Tamara Karsavina — Russian ballerina (1885–1978), one of the greatest dancers of the early 20th century and a leading figure of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; Nijinsky's most celebrated partner, she créated roles in The Firebird, Petrushka, and Le Spectre de la Rose; after emigrating from Russia following the Revolution she settled in London, where she became a revered teacher and a living link to the golden age of Russian classical ballet.
- Tamar in the Hebrew Bible — Two significant biblical women share the root name: Tamar daughter of Judah (Genesis 38), who claimed her legal rights through determined action and became an ancestor of King David; and Tamar daughter of King David (2 Samuel 13), whose story of violation and abandonment is one of the most harrowing in the Hebrew Bible; together they represent the full range of the name's ancient weight — justice, beauty, and tragedy — carried through into the name Tamara.