Temeka
Temeka was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 1,419 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Temeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 44 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Temeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Temeka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,945, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
130 babies in 1977, the peak
Temeka peaked in 1977, when 130 girls were given it, #1,030 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #15,945 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,559 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,661 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,684 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,940 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,260 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,233 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,293 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,849 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,963 | 18.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 53 | #2,044 | 30.8 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,749 | 37.4 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,768 | 36.5 |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,426 | 50.8 |
| 1981 | 98 | #1,303 | 58.8 |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,309 | 59.0 |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,167 | 71.0 |
| 1978 | 118 | #1,112 | 77.0 |
| 1977 | 130 | #1,030 | 84.8 |
| 1976 | 126 | #1,004 | 86.0 |
| 1975 | 111 | #1,064 | 76.1 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,384 | 51.1 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,012 | 28.1 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,348 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,107 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,372 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,305 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,081 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Temeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Temeka has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Temeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Temeka, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,419 Americans ever recorded as Temeka. The median Temeka alive today is 47 years old; half are between 44 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,060 people named Temeka (1,060 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 849 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 498 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
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 Temeka born?
The states with the most babies named Temeka are Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 107 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 103 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Mississippi | 92 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Alabama | 80 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Illinois | 80 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 73 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 61 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 36 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 33 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 27 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Temeka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Temeka is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1968 it was given 2.8 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 Temeka 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,886 babies since 1880, Temeka is the most given (49% 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 Temeka
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 Temeka and names like it
- Compare Temeka and TemikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTemeka peaked in 1977.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Temeka since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Temeka.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Temeka alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.