Tamecia — girls' name
264 babies named Tamecia in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1978. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Tamecia was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Tamecia in 1978 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tamecia
The Social Security Administration has registered 264 babies named Tamecia between 1970 and 2002, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamecia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamecia performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 111 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tamecia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tamecia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tamecia 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 264 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.
Tamecia at a glance
Last recorded 2002Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tamecia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–1970
- Peak year (1978)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2002.
264 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1978 with 22 births in a single year.
Tamecia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 111 births that decade — 42% of Tamecia's all-time total
Tamecia decade highlights
- Peak decade 111 births
- Runner-up 85 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Tamecia's strongest decade
111 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Tamecia by state
Where Tamecia concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 264 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1970–2002 (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.