Given name
Tameka
“a twin”
Tameka is used as a given name. One Aramaic interpretation is “a twin.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Aramaic interpretation is “a twin.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Aramaic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tameka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12,772
- 41 boys · 12,731 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 1,031 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,021 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 10,495 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tameka’s family of names
Tameka has a related form in Tomeka. Tameka has a related form in Tamekia. Tameka has a related form in Tameika.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tameka
- Tameka YallopAustralian association football playerborn 1991
- Tameka WilliamsSaint Kitts and Nevis sprinterborn 1989
- Tameka EmpsonBritish actressborn 1977
- Tameka JamesonNigerian female sprinterborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Sibling ideas
Names that share Tameka’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.
A brother for Tameka