Tomeka
3,634 recorded births · active 1963–1996
Compare Tomeka →Living-age distribution
The median living Tomeka is 49. If you meet a Tomeka, there's about a 70% chance they're between 43 and 53 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Tomeka: 1976. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Tomeka is almost always given to female babies — 99.8% female.
Rarity
Tomeka ranks #5,189 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Tomekas are 2.0x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Tomeka's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Tomeka's modeled peak was #868 in 1976 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Tomeka hasn't shown up in SSA records since 1996 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Tomeka isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Tomeka enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.