Tamba Family History

West African (Senegal and the Gambia): name found among the Jola people of unexplained etymology. West African (Liberia and Sierra Leone): from a personal name found among the Kissi and Kono peoples denoting a second-born boy.

Japanese: written 丹波 ‘red waves’ taken from the ancient province of Tamba in modern times divided between Kyōto and Hyōgo prefectures. A few families use different characters in place of the second one such as 場 (‘place’) 葉 (‘leaves’) or 馬 (‘horse’) and the name is also often Romanized as Tanba.

Indonesian: ornamental name or nickname from Javanese tamba ‘medicine remedy’. Romanian: unexplained.