Tameka
Tameka is a feminine given name. Notable people with the given name include:Tameka Yallop, Australian football midfielder Tameka A.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Tameka
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tameka is a feminine given name. Notable people with the given name include:Tameka Yallop, Australian football midfielder Tameka A.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Tameka
The earliest SSA record of Tameka as a baby girl name dates back to 1965, when 9 babies received it. 1977 was its biggest year on record, with 1,021 newborns named Tameka — #241 in the national rankings. About 50% of every Tameka on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Tameka last appeared in the published SSA data in 2011, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 13K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Tameka
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Tameka. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Tameka
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About the name Tameka
Tameka is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1965 and has accumulated 13K births in the dataset. Tameka's peak popularity came in 1977 when it ranked #241. Use the chart and map above to compare Tameka'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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