Tameka
Tameka was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 12,772 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Tameka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 42 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tameka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tameka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tameka is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tameka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,558, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,031 babies in 1977, the peak
Tameka peaked in 1977, when 1,031 babies were given it (1,021 girls, #241 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #16,558 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,787 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,562 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,482 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,491 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,318 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,974 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,350 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,850 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,647 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 18 | #6,286 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,582 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,708 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,841 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,322 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,203 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,075 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,586 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,443 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 139 | #1,251 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 171 | #1,061 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 235 | #838 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 262 | #749 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 262 | #716 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 337 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 350 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 429 | #483 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 484 | #434 | 0.29 |
| 1983 | 606 | #371 | 0.36 |
| 1982 | 683 | #347 | 0.40 |
| 1981 | 738 | #320 | 0.44 |
| 1980 | 845 | #294 | 0.51 |
| 1979 | 875 | #281 | 0.55 |
| 1978 | 962 | #247 | 0.63 |
| 1977 | 1,021 | #241 | 0.67 |
| 1976 | 916 | #260 | 0.63 |
| 1975 | 893 | #269 | 0.61 |
| 1974 | 568 | #376 | 0.39 |
| 1973 | 495 | #404 | 0.34 |
| 1972 | 325 | #523 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 210 | #726 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 121 | #1,025 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,477 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,606 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,629 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,816 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,789 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tameka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tameka has been given almost only to girls: 41 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tameka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tameka, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 12,772 Americans ever recorded as Tameka. The median Tameka alive today is 47 years old; half are between 42 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 10,495 people named Tameka (10,475 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 316 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tameka born?
The states with the most babies named Tameka are Georgia, Texas and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 900 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Texas | 832 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 830 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 804 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 761 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 742 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 629 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| California | 567 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 560 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 509 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Tameka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tameka is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1965 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tameka with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,858 babies since 1880, Tameka is the second most given (28% 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 Tameka
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 Tameka and names like it
- Compare Tameka and TamikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTameka peaked in 1977.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tameka since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Tameka: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tameka.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tameka alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.