# Tamara vs Tanaka

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Tamara
*name · IPA /təˈmɑɹə/ · frequency rank #23,122*
A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.

### Tanaka
*name · frequency rank #20,512*
A surname from Japanese.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tamara-vs-tanaka