Ok, so at the moment, I’m completely obsessed with The Musketeers on the BBC, and I found myself looking at the credits at the names of the actors/actresses. I love [name_f]Constance[/name_f] (the name and the character), so I kind of got drawn to the name of the actress who plays her, Tamla [name_u]Kari[/name_u].
Then I looked Tamla up, because I think it sounds great, and was surprised to find next to nothing about it as a name. I just got that Tamla Motown was a name of a record label, which I’ve never heard of it, but tbh I’m oblivious to stuff now, let alone what went on before I was born. I also found a user submitted entry on Behind The Name, that said it was a contracted version of [name_f]Tamela[/name_f], which itself is possibly a merge of [name_f]Pamela[/name_f] and [name_f]Tamara[/name_f]. So basically, I didn’t find much. I honestly thought it was guaranteed to be at least mentioned in an old post but, there’s nothing.
What I want to ask is; does anyone know anything more about the name? Or is it just made up? It really looks like a genuine name (to me), and definitely not made up. Is there some kind of awful association that makes it automatically unusable? I’m really intrigued!
Tamla Motown was inspired by [name_f]Debbie[/name_f] [name_u]Reynold[/name_u]'s record “[name_f]Tammy[/name_f]”. Since [name_f]Tammy[/name_f] was already copyrighted, the founder of Tamla got creative and came up with something similar.
I would agree with Behind the Name, haha. I feel your pain though, there is a cemetery behind my house with a grave for a little Florala, with parents [name_m]Andrew[/name_m] and [name_f]Isabella[/name_f] from the 1860’s. I tried looking into the name and found nothing, but I still think it’s cute.
Good luck, I’ll see what I can find when I get back onto my laptop! (HTCs arent the best for long google search result lists)
Me too! [name_f]My[/name_f] mum said that on our next vacation (we always hit up a historical site in the US), she’ll take me to an old cemetery and look through the graves with me. It was going to be a cemetery in [name_u]Salem[/name_u], so I could look at [name_u]Salem[/name_u] Witch Trial records and graves (We were planning to go to [name_m]Boston[/name_m]), but not sure that’s happening this year.
On my laptop at [name_m]McDonald[/name_m]'s now (got to love Wifi hotspots ), this is what I could find:
The only famous Tamla coming up is Tamla [name_u]Kari[/name_u], who you mentioned, she was also in a British teen comedy that I love, The Inbetweeners.
The only name similar to Tamla I could find in the ONS ([name_f]England[/name_f] and [name_m]Wales[/name_m]) stats for 2013 was Tamelia, so it doesn’t appear to have a lot of usage.
One suggestion I do have, is to go to britishbabynames.com, and on the Requests page, leave a message for [name_f]Elea[/name_f] asking about a Name of the Week page/info on Tamla. Considering the amount she found for Clarimond and Ismeria, I’m sure she could find something for you!
[name_f]My[/name_f] mum said that on our next vacation (we always hit up a historical site in the US), she’ll take me to an old cemetery and look through the graves with me. It was going to be a cemetery in [name_u]Salem[/name_u], so I could look at [name_u]Salem[/name_u] Witch Trial records and graves (We were planning to go to [name_m]Boston[/name_m]), but not sure that’s happening this year.
), this is what I could find: