Tamela

Where Tamela comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tamela.

  • Vowel-ended
Tamela through the years
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,448 among girls with 10 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #492
    390 babies named Tamela, the most in any year.
  3. 1966
    Tamela Mann born
    American actress and singer
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #730.
  5. 1982
    Tamela Hedström born
    Costa Rican singer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Tamela Mann · American actress and singer, born 1966
  • Tamela Hedström · Costa Rican singer, born 1982
  • Tamela D'Amico · American jazz singer, actress, and filmmaker, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.