Tomeka
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tomeka has been given to 3,634 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1976, with 387 recorded.
Babies named Tomeka, 1996
1 in 304,000
Tomeka over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tomeka?
Tomeka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 304,000
- 12 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 210,605 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tomeka sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 210,605 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomeka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tomekas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomeka was born before 1977 — so the typical Tomeka is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 65.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,628
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 65.7% of all recorded uses (2,385).
Is Tomeka 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 1976 (387)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.2% average annual change
Spellings of Tomeka
Tomeka is not the most common spelling — Tamika is, with 26.4% against Tomeka's 4.2%.
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 Tomeka is used
Across 1910–2025, Tomeka was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 42,547 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 9,091
- 2Georgia1 in 12,500
- 3Alabama1 in 14,286
- 4North Carolina1 in 14,286
- 5South Carolina1 in 14,286
- 6Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 7Virginia1 in 20,000
- 8Arkansas1 in 25,000
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. Tomeka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tomeka by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Tomeka
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Tomeka
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tomeka, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Tomeka
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.