Tameya
Tameya was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 190 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tameya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tameya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,600, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2004, the peak
Tameya peaked in 2004, when 20 girls were given it, #6,185 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,600 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,340 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,818 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,563 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,014 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,569 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,319 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,819 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,185 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,540 | 8.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 11 | #9,413 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,287 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,650 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,799 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,196 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,944 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,071 | 6.3 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,542 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tameya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tameya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tameya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tameya, and how old are they?
An estimated 188 Americans named Tameya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 20 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Tameya (191 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Tameya?
Tameya is a less common spelling of Tamaya: SSA has recorded 190 Tameya and 1,123 Tamaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 354,874 babies since 1880, Tameya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 126 babies recorded by SSA was a Tameya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tameya
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 Tameya and names like it
- Compare Tameya and TamayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTameya peaked in 2004.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Tameya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tameya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.