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Tameka

Girls' name

Variant of Tamika

Tameka has been given to 12,772 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 1,021 recorded.

Babies named Tameka, 2011

1 in 610,000

Tameka over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tameka: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tamika

coinages

What Tameka means

Tameka is a variant of Tamika.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tameka is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tə.ˈmi.kə/ for Tameka.

Origin, language, and formation

Tameka is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Tameka is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tamika.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,731 girls were recorded with the name Tameka between 1965 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 1,021 in 1977; its best national rank was #241 in 1977.

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Tameka between 1977 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,810 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tameka?

Tameka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tameka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tameka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamekas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tameka was born before 1979 — so the typical Tameka is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
50.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,731
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (6,386).

Is Tameka rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (1,021)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#241
1977

Spellings of Tameka

Tameka is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 67.5% against Tameka's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tameka is used

Across 1910–2025, Tameka was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 12,298 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

031 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 3,226
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,167
  3. 3Alabama1 in 4,762
  4. 4Georgia1 in 5,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 5,263
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 5,882
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 6,250
  8. 8Florida1 in 6,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tameka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tameka around the world

Where Tameka ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1994–2001
    #2,611
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1975–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tameka

People whose public names include Tameka, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tameka by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#241
1977
Peak year
1977
1,021 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
12,731
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,810
1977
Peak year
1977
10 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tameka

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TameraTamiaTameekaTammieTamiekaTamarTamyraTamelaTamikaTamiyaTamraTammiTamyaTamaraTamiTamikoTamalaRebekaTamariTamiraTamiyahTamicaTambraTamie

Names with a curve like Tameka

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tameka, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LakishaLashondaLakeshaTeraLakeishaMandiLatoshaAmieKeishaMistiJasonLatisha

Sibling names for Tameka

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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