Jameka — girls' name
1,631 babies named Jameka in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Jameka was born in this single decade.
102 babies were named Jameka in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jameka
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,631 babies named Jameka between 1972 and 2016, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jameka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 102 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jameka performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 664 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jameka shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jameka in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jameka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,631 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jameka at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jameka popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1972
- Peak year (1993)
- 102
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
1,631 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 102 births in a single year.
Jameka by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 664 births that decade — 41% of Jameka's all-time total
Jameka decade highlights
- Peak decade 664 births
- Runner-up 561 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Jameka's strongest decade
664 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Jameka by state
Where Jameka concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 122 | 7.5% |
| #2 | North Carolina | | 95 | 5.8% |
| #3 | Florida | | 61 | 3.7% |
| #4 | Alabama | | 52 | 3.2% |
| #5 | Mississippi | | 43 | 2.6% |
| #6 | Illinois | | 38 | 2.3% |
| #7 | Tennessee | | 33 | 2.0% |
| #8 | Virginia | | 32 | 2.0% |
122 of 1,631 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 14 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 7.5% of nationwide
- North Carolina 5.8% of nationwide
- Florida 3.7% of nationwide
- Alabama 3.2% of nationwide
- Mississippi 2.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 14 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 7.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Jameka appears in 14 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.