girls:
1.4k births since 1968
#4317 (24th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1978
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1968
#6325 (18th percentile)
The name Temeka is the #6,325 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,419 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 18.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,317 (24.5% percentile) for all time with 1,414 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1978.
Temeka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1978 for boys). Birth data for Temeka is available in 28 out of the 30 years between 1968 and 1997 (28 years for girls and 1 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 Temeka has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Temeka reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #643) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 80 births per million (ranked 15.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
For boys, Temeka reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #676) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Temeka".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Temeka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.7% confident that Temeka is pronounced as tuh-MEE-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-MEH-kuh, at 13.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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