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Tanika

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tanika has been given to 4,522 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 314 recorded.

Babies named Tanika, 2016

1 in 524,000

Tanika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tanika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tanika means

Tanika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tanika is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,522 girls were recorded with the name Tanika between 1968 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 314 in 1982; its best national rank was #558 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tanika?

Tanika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 524,000
7 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 253,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
363,362 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tanika sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tanikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanika was born before 1982 — so the typical Tanika is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,522
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (1,823).

Is Tanika rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (314)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#558
1976

Spellings of Tanika

Tanika is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 27.4% against Tanika's 0.57%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tanika is used

Across 1910–2025, Tanika was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 41,689 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 11,111
  2. 2Maryland1 in 11,111
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 25,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 25,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tanika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tanika around the world

Where Tanika ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,538
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1975–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tanika

People whose public names include Tanika, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tanika by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#558
1976
Peak year
1982
314 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
4,522
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tanika

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tanika

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tanika, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShalondaLashandaShantaLakeshiaNikiaBrandeeSharondaLatoshaToshaKenyattaRashidaJason

Sibling names for Tanika

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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