Tameca
Tameca was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 697 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tameca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tameca?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,513, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
78 babies in 1976, the peak
Tameca peaked in 1976, when 78 girls were given it, #1,381 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #15,513 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,005 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,586 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,267 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,292 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,114 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,909 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,410 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,328 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,524 | 22.4 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 31 | #2,917 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,242 | 27.1 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,994 | 32.4 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,687 | 41.1 |
| 1977 | 67 | #1,607 | 43.7 |
| 1976 | 78 | #1,381 | 53.2 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,638 | 41.2 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,627 | 39.5 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,091 | 26.7 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,666 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,777 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,884 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,528 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tameca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tameca has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tameca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tameca, and how old are they?
An estimated 662 Americans named Tameca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 45 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 545 people named Tameca (545 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 671 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Tameca?
Tameca is a less common spelling of Tameka: SSA has recorded 697 Tameca and 12,772 Tameka since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,458 babies since 1880, Tameca is the seventh most given (1.6% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tameca
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tameca and names like it
- Compare Tameca and TamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTameca peaked in 1976.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tameca since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Tameca.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tameca alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.