Tamekia
Tamekia was last recorded in 1998, when 7 babies were given it; 1,883 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Tamekia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 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 Tamekia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamekia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,276, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
172 babies in 1979, the peak
Tamekia peaked in 1979, when 172 girls were given it, #884 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #12,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,315 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,420 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,178 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,660 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,526 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,887 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,915 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,357 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 54 | #2,060 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,861 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,571 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,379 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 92 | #1,317 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 104 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 107 | #1,225 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 119 | #1,148 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 172 | #884 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 136 | #1,005 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 145 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 130 | #986 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 157 | #856 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,462 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,767 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,269 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,734 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,539 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,096 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamekia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamekia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamekia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamekia, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,883 Americans ever recorded as Tamekia. The median Tamekia alive today is 46 years old; half are between 42 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,561 people named Tamekia (1,555 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,822 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 1,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 789 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7 |
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 Tamekia born?
The states with the most babies named Tamekia are Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 170 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Georgia | 165 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Mississippi | 125 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Texas | 125 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 93 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Florida | 85 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 83 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 81 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 66 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| South Carolina | 63 | not ranked | 2.4× |
Where Tamekia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamekia is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1968 it was given 5.4 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 Tamekia 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 41,686 babies since 1880, Tamekia is the third most given (4.5% 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 Tamekia
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 Tamekia and names like it
- Compare Tamekia and TamikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamekia peaked in 1979.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamekia since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Tamekia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamekia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.