Emeka
Emeka is a male given name and surname of Igbo origin. As a given name it is typically derived from either Chukwuemeka or Nnaemeka.
- Igbo
Meaning & Origin of Emeka
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Emeka is a male given name and surname of Igbo origin. As a given name it is typically derived from either Chukwuemeka or Nnaemeka.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Igbo
The Story of Emeka
Emeka first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1974, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1991: 16 births, good for #3,635 nationwide. About 24% of every Emeka on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Emeka last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 472 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Emeka
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Emeka. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Chiemeka
- Chuks
- Chukwuemeka
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About the name Emeka
Emeka is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1974 and has accumulated 472 births in the dataset. Emeka's peak popularity came in 1991 when it ranked #3,635. Use the chart and map above to compare Emeka's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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