Tameka

Where Tameka comes from

The dictionaries list Tameka as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #4,494 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #241
    1,021 babies named Tameka — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #432.
  4. 1989
    Tameka Williams born
    Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter
  5. 1991
    Tameka Yallop born
    Australian association football player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes
  • Tameka Yallop · Australian association football player, born 1991
  • Tameka Williams · Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter, born 1989
  • Tameka Empson · British actress, born 1977
  • Tameka Jameson · Nigerian female sprinter, born 1989
  • Tameka Cottle · American R&B singer, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.