Tamekia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tamekia

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,883 babies named Tamekia between 1968 and 1998, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamekia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 172 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamekia performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 928 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tamekia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 170 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamekia in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tamekia 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 1,883 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.