How rare is the name Tameka?

10,495 people in the United States have the first name Tameka, about 1 in 28,779. It ranks #2,383 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TAMEKA

#2,383

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,495
About
1 in 28,779
This common or more
79.6%
Who bears it

Of the 10,495 people named Tameka, 92.9% reported their origin as Black, 2.9% as two or more races and 2.3% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tameka peaked in 1977, when 1,031 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19652011
Peak year
1977
Births that year
1,031
In 2011
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,772 babies have been given the name since 1965. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tameka by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #657. The largest share of babies named Tameka, 58%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#5,183148
1970s#6576,401
1980s#8055,022
1990s#2,6421,019
2000s#11,404169
2010s#37,94513
Generation X 1965–8058%
Millennials 1981–9639.5%
Generation Z 1997–122.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tameka is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tameka has been most common in District of Columbia (4.1×), Mississippi (3.3×), and Alabama (2.9×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.24×).

11,562 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Tameka

1 other first name also has 10,495 people.

#2,383 Brycen · 10,495

Either side of Tameka

#2,382 Marlena · 10,496#2,383 Brycen · 10,495#2,385 Kennedi · 10,494#2,386 Chong · 10,492

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tameka, most common first.

#1,664 Tamika · 18,804#9,072 Tamekia · 1,561#10,203 Tameika · 1,320#10,503 Taneka · 1,265#14,906 Tameeka · 781#19,168 Tamieka · 556#19,413 Tameca · 545#35,030 Tameko · 231

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