Tameeka
Feminine
Tameeka spells with a double e what its sister spellings write with a single one, and in doing so it removes the only ambiguity the name had. English has few reliable vowel spellings; this happens to be one of them.
How old is the name Tameeka?
Tameeka first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Tameeka alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 900 people named Tameeka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tameeka most popular?
Tameeka peaked in 1979, reaching #1569 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tameeka
Of all the vowel spellings English has, ee is the steadiest. The letter a has six or seven values depending on the word; the letter o has nearly as many; ea can be read three ways in three words on the same page. But ee is almost always the long vowel of see and tree and free — an English speaker who has never met a word before will still say ee correctly. That is what this spelling buys: of all the ways the name is written, this is the one nobody can get wrong. The rest of the name is a shape rather than a story, and a well-built one — three syllables with the weight in the middle, opening and closing on soft sounds, a name that carries across a room without being sharp in it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Tameeka is American-made and has no source language. The Japanese name Tamiko is often offered for it, and that is a real name — written with characters, said with three even syllables, and unrelated to this one in sound, structure or history. Attaching it to Tameeka is a habit of name books rather than an account of where the name came from.
Pronouncing Tameeka
tuh-MEE-kuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The doubled e fixes the middle vowel, which the single-e spellings leave open to guesswork.
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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
- 197973 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1569reached in 1979
- Change vs 1996
- +66.7%10 in 1998, from 6
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.
Tameekas among us
people named Tameeka 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
Tameeka 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
- The spelling is unambiguous, which is more than its own close relatives can say.
- The rhythm is strong and it shortens cleanly to a name that stands on its own.
- It is rare enough to be hers alone in most settings.
- Tameka, Tamika and Tamiko are all close by, and hers will be written as one of them by anyone working from sound.
- The name places its bearer in a particular American generation, which strangers will hear.
- There is no inherited meaning here, and the Japanese reading offered online is not one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tameekas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Tameeka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tameeka in 2025?
- Tameeka is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tameeka will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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