Tameca — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tameca

The Social Security Administration has registered 697 babies named Tameca between 1969 and 1994, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tameca currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 78 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tameca performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 467 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tameca shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Tameca in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tameca 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 697 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.