girls:
12.7k births since 1965
#1386 (76th percentile)
boys:
41 births since 1977
#4545 (1st percentile)
overall:
12.8k births since 1965
#2330 (70th percentile)
The name Tameka is the #2,330 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,771 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 69.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,386 (75.8% percentile) for all time with 12,730 births since 1965. For boys, it ranks #4,545 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 1977.
Tameka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Tameka is available in 47 out of the 47 years between 1965 and 2011 (47 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tameka has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tameka reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 69.9% percentile (ranked #232) with 621 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 621 births per million (ranked 69.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
For boys, Tameka reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #669) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tameka".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tameka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.5% confident that Tameka is pronounced as tuh-MEE-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-MEH-kuh, at 13.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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