Tyreke

Where Tyreke comes from

Tyreke hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1981
    First appearance
    #5,468 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Tyreke Evans born
    American basketball player
  3. 1998
    Tyreke Johnson born
    English association football player
  4. 1999
    Peak, #737
    220 babies named Tyreke — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,677.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tyreke Evans · American basketball player, born 1989
  • Tyreke Johnson · English association football player, born 1998
  • Tyreke Key · American basketball player, born 1998

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.