Tamela

Where Tamela comes from

Tamela hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,448 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #492
    390 babies named Tamela — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1966
    Tamela Mann born
    American actress and singer
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #730.
  5. 1982
    Tamela Hedström born
    Costa Rican singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tamela Mann · American actress and singer, born 1966
  • Tamela Hedström · Costa Rican singer, born 1982
  • Tamela D'Amico · American jazz singer, actress, and filmmaker, born 1986

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.