Tameca
Feminine
Tameca is one of half a dozen spellings of a single built name, and none of them has a better claim than the others. The syllable at the front of it opens an English word family that runs from a drum to a piece of needlework.
How old is the name Tameca?
Tameca first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Tameca alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 700 people named Tameca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tameca most popular?
Tameca peaked in 1976, reaching #1373 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tameca
A tabor was a small drum carried by a medieval musician and played with one hand while the other worked a pipe. French made a bigger version of the word, tambour, for a drum generally, and then a diminutive of that for the small frame drum with jingles that English calls a tambourine — a little drum, twice removed. The word then jumped fields. Embroiderers work on fabric stretched taut between two hoops, and because the result looks exactly like a drum head, the frame and the technique were both called tambour; tambour work is still the name for chain-stitch embroidery done with a hook on stretched cloth, and it is how most beaded couture is made. A word for a drum now names a piece of needlework, a rolling shutter on a desk and a kind of crochet, all because of the shape.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented. The name was assembled in America from a front syllable and an ending taken from longer names, and the spellings multiplied faster than the name did. Glosses attaching it to Hebrew or an African language are added afterwards and produce no word.
Pronouncing Tameca
tuh-MEE-kuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The c says k, which is the one thing the spelling could mislead a reader about and almost never does.
Nicknames for Tameca
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 197678 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1373reached in 1976
- Change vs 1990
- 0.0%5 in 1994, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tamecas among us
people named Tameca are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tameca sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Middle stress on three syllables is the easiest rhythm English offers.
- Both halves detach as short forms and sound nothing like each other.
- The spelling is phonetic and can be written from hearing.
- Tameka, Tamika and Tomeka are all recorded and will be written for it.
- The spelling has to be given aloud every time, without exception.
- No meaning can honestly be given, and the ones circulating online are invented.
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- How many Tamecas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Tameca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tameca in 2025?
- Tameca is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tameca will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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