Tomeka
Feminine
Tomeka is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 3,628 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Tomeka and Tameka are one name. The vowel that separates them is unstressed and therefore free: English reduces it to almost nothing in speech, so a writer can put an o or an a there and nobody listening will know which was chosen.
How old is the name Tomeka?
Tomeka first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Tomeka alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 3,500 people named Tomeka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tomeka most popular?
Tomeka peaked in 1976, reaching #475 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tameka to Tomeka
The story of Tomeka
The ending is the interesting part. It began attached to one name and then detached itself and went to work independently, producing Shameka, Lameka, Nameka and Tomeka within a couple of decades, each with a different front syllable and the same close. That is a productive suffix behaving exactly like the -ene and -lyn endings did a generation earlier, and it tells you the names were being built rather than borrowed. The whole family clusters tightly in the American record between the nineteen-sixties and the nineteen-eighties, and almost none of it appears anywhere outside the United States.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name was assembled rather than inherited and carries no meaning. Explanations connecting it to Japanese or to African languages are offered from time to time and none of them survives contact with the record.
How the name formed
- Tameka
- Tomeka
Pronouncing Tomeka
toh-MEE-kuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first is reduced almost to nothing, which is exactly why the spelling of it is not fixed.
Nicknames for Tomeka
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
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 1976387 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #475reached in 1976
- Change vs 1995
- −7.7%12 in 1996, from 13
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.
Tomekas among us
people named Tomeka 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
Tomeka 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 stress falls in the middle, which gives it a lift that most English names of its length do not have.
- Every sound in it is straightforward and the spelling follows the sound.
- Meka works as a short form and stands alone as a name.
- Tameka, Tomika and Tomeka are said identically, so the spelling has to be given every time.
- There is no inherited meaning, and the ones offered online are inventions.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tomekas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,500 people named Tomeka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tomeka in 2025?
- Tomeka is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tomeka with classmates?
- Tomeka will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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