Tomekia
Feminine
Tomekia builds on a man's familiar form with an ending that was widely available when it was made. The name at the front belongs to an apostle whose own name is a description rather than a name, and to the author — probably — of the most reprinted Christian book there is.
How old is the name Tomekia?
Tomekia first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Tomekia alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 700 people named Tomekia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tomekia most popular?
Tomekia peaked in 1975, reaching #1309 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tomekia
After the Bible, the book most often printed in the Christian world is a short devotional manual written in a Dutch monastery in the early fifteenth century, and who wrote it has been argued about for six hundred years. The manuscript tradition attaches it to a canon usually known by his birthplace, a small town on the lower Rhine, and the earliest copies in his own hand survive. But rival claims were made almost immediately — for a French chancellor, for an Italian abbot two centuries earlier — and the dispute produced an entire scholarly literature, complete with forged colophons. The consensus now favors the Dutch canon. The irony is thick: the book's own argument is that a man should want to be unknown and thought of as nothing, and its authorship became one of the longest-running credit disputes in European letters.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is the short form of Thomas, which in Aramaic means a twin and was evidently a nickname before it was a name. The ending is a free American suffix with no content. Nothing records what the family meant by joining them.
Pronouncing Tomekia
toh-MEE-kee-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. In fast speech the last two collapse into one, giving three syllables, and both are heard in the same families.
Nicknames for Tomekia
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
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 197584 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1309reached in 1975
- Change vs 1989
- +40.0%7 in 1991, 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.
Tomekias among us
people named Tomekia 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
Tomekia 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
- Several short forms come out of it at different cuts and they sound unrelated.
- The stress falls where an English reader expects, so first attempts land.
- The father's name is visible inside it, which is the point of the build.
- Tomeka, Tameka and Tomika are all recorded and will be written for it.
- The syllable count is unstable, so the name is said two ways.
- No meaning can honestly be given for the ending.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tomekias 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 Tomekia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tomekia in 2025?
- Tomekia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tomekia with classmates?
- Tomekia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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