How do you pronounce Tamar?

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I have pronounced it Ta (with a short 'a' sound, like the 'a' in 'cat') - Mar (to rhyme with car). With the emphasis on the second syllable, the 'mar'. This is how I've heard it used by the only Tamars I've known (but none of them are British).

I posted another thread asking between Tamar and another name what was preferred and people mentioned pronunciation issues with Tamar and also one person said they wouldn't like the nickname 'Tay'. I was confused as I didn't understand where that nickname would come from? Now I'm wondering if there's another pronunciation used in the UK (something like 'Tay-mar'), which is assume much have the emphasis on the first syllable?

I love Tamar (said the first way) and although I don't like in the UK, I'm British and still have family wnd friends back home so don't want to choose a name that sounds horrible with the typical British pronunciation!

So how would you pronounce this name? Like me? Or the second way?

This. It’s the only way I’ve heard if

I know a Tay, they always say 'like the lion tamer not the river', but that may be her personal preference.

There was a TAYmar in Eastenders for quite a while.

I teach a Tamar, pronounced as you pronounce it (Hebrew pronunciation I think)

The only one I have known in life was named Tamar for the river and pronounced accordingly.

This. I live in Cornwall, it HAS to be Tay-mar. Which I think is a lovely name by the way, wish I'd thought of it myself !

I’m from the UK and would say Tay-mar

Definitely the first way - Ta-mar like the more common Tamara but without the ‘a’

I know someone called Tamar pronounced with a short a, in fact the a is almost not there. It's more like T'mar as a PP said. She's also Jewish. I've never met anyone else with this name but would have assumed this to be the standard pronunciation. I like it.

I'd say Tay-mar too, we cross the River Tamar a lot on our way to/from Cornwall so it wouldn't occur to me there's any other way to pronounce it tbh.

I would guess Tay mar, but if corrected I’d go with what the child/parents said.

We know a few Mias/Elenas who have different pronounciations and you just go with what they say.

Same as most other responses- I'd say it like the river.
I used to work with a Tamar who was (I think) Turkish, and he pronounced it the same way.

I would pronounce it Tam (like jam) Arr (like car)

Tay-mar - like the river, the former HMS, and the usual Biblical pronunciation

I’m British but have never heard of the river so would pronounce it like you do

Like Tuh-mar "tart + marsh"

I once read a book with the protagonist called Tamar. Her name was explained as pronounced as 'Tay-Mar'

I’d never heard of the river and know a Tamar. He pronounces it as you described

I'm a Tamar and it's pronounced Tay-Mar as after the bridge my mother weirdly chose to name me from, not the river underneath!

Im British and had a friend with the name, pronounced tay-mar

I’ve only ever known it to be Tay-mar. LOVE it!! I’ve known boys and girls called Tamar. Don’t like the ‘tammar’ pronunciation at all.

short Tuh sound
longer Mah like car

tu-MAR

*tuh-MAR

I live in Cornwall so I'd pronounce Tamar like the river Tay-Mar

Both.
I read it as Ta-Mar and then kinda corrected myself assuming it was Tay-Mar

Ultimately if my cousin said this is Ta-Mar I'd call him that.