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Taniqua

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Taniqua has been given to 605 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1991, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Taniqua, 2002

1 in 534,000

Taniqua 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taniqua: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Taniqua means

Taniqua is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Taniqua is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Taniqua is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 605 girls were recorded with the name Taniqua between 1974 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,989 in 1991.

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 Taniqua?

Taniqua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 534,000
7 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 257,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
370,070 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taniqua 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 2002 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 370,070 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taniqua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taniquas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taniqua was born before 1991 — so the typical Taniqua is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
55.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
605
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 55.2% of all recorded uses (334).

Is Taniqua 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (70)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,989
1991

Spellings of Taniqua

Taniqua is not the most common spelling — Tania is, with 44.6% against Taniqua's 0.93%.

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 Taniqua is used

Across 1910–2025, Taniqua was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 333,134 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

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. Taniqua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taniqua 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,989
1991
Peak year
1991
70 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
605
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taniqua

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

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Sibling names for Taniqua

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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