Tameca

Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430

Peak · girls
1976 · 78 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
697
since 1969

Tameca over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Tameca has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #1,373, 1976girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1989#8,7618
1988#9,2447
1987#5,92312
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1984#3,32925
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1969#5,9747
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five girls were named Tameca! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1990–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Tameca is popular in 1969

No state had 5 or more girls named Tameca in 1969, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Tameca
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1994
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 1976 at #1,373 (78 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 18,783
  • Highest: 1 in 18,783 girls born in 1976 were named Tameca (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,151 girls born in 1994 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 67.0% of all girls named Tameca (467) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s7#5,974 (1969)#5,974
1970s467#1,373 (1976)#2,524
1980s213#2,218 (1980)#5,027
1990s10#12,958 (1990)#13,194

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tameca in 1969

girls
#5,974
7 births · 1 in 241,002 girls

Top girls' names in 1969

  1. #1Lisa45,028
  2. #2Michelle34,319
  3. #3Jennifer33,705
  4. #4Kimberly33,077
  5. #5Melissa23,018
  6. #6Amy21,464
  7. #7Angela21,060
  8. #8Mary19,850
  9. #9Tammy19,053
  10. #10Laura17,922
  11. #5,974Tameca7
More about 1969

girls

1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 241,002 of them was named Tameca, which outranked 31.4% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tameca
  1. #5,456Yvonda8
  2. #5,456Zan8
  3. #5,456Zorina8
  4. #5,974Tameca7
  5. #5,974Abril7
  6. #5,974Adah7
  7. #5,974Adalia7
  8. #6,617Abagail6
  9. #6,617Acquanetta6
  10. #6,617Adaline6

Tied with 642 names at #5,974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,462Shani#2,126 → #664
  2. ↑ 1,203Julissa#2,164 → #961
  3. ↑ 1,133Chelsea#1,834 → #701
  4. ↑ 667Latasha#1,519 → #852
  5. ↑ 549Britt#1,519 → #970
Fallers
  1. ↓ 455Tamiko#552 → #1,007
  2. ↓ 345Alesia#697 → #1,042
  3. ↓ 324Vickey#966 → #1,290
  4. ↓ 308Bettina#746 → #1,054
  5. ↓ 293Cammie#846 → #1,139

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969 →