Tomeka
Tomeka was last recorded in 1996, when 12 babies were given it; 3,634 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,450 Americans named Tomeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 45 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tomeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tomeka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,538, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
387 babies in 1976, the peak
Tomeka peaked in 1976, when 387 girls were given it, #476 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | #7,538 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,008 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,676 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,812 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,252 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,808 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,146 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,977 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,978 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,093 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 44 | #2,339 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,521 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 106 | #1,231 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 97 | #1,277 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 136 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 176 | #874 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 227 | #734 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 266 | #658 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 292 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 321 | #552 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 387 | #476 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 357 | #502 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 241 | #637 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 201 | #721 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 137 | #911 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 99 | #1,170 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 84 | #1,292 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,925 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,534 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,511 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,850 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tomeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tomeka has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tomeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tomeka, and how old are they?
3,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,634 Americans ever recorded as Tomeka. The median Tomeka alive today is 49 years old; half are between 45 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,815 people named Tomeka (2,805 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 886 |
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 Tomeka born?
The states with the most babies named Tomeka are Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 381 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| North Carolina | 328 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Texas | 262 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 236 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Alabama | 204 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Virginia | 186 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Florida | 185 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 173 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Louisiana | 164 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 128 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Tomeka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tomeka is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1963 it was given 5.0 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 Tomeka 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 9,200 babies since 1880, Tomeka is the most given (40% 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 Tomeka
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 Tomeka and names like it
- Compare Tomeka and TomikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTomeka peaked in 1976.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tomeka since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Tomeka.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tomeka alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.