Tenika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tenika has been given to 1,029 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 157 recorded.
Babies named Tenika, 1998
1 in 735,000
Tenika over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tenika?
Tenika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 735,000
- 5 of 3,677,189 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 353,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 509,768 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tenika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tenika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tenikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tenika was born before 1982 — so the typical Tenika is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 56.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,029
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (579).
Is Tenika 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (157)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Spellings of Tenika
Tenika is not the most common spelling — Erika is, with 33.7% against Tenika's 0.28%.
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 Tenika is used
Across 1910–2025, Tenika was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 333,909 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3Maryland1 in 100,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5Alabama1 in —
- 6California1 in —
- 7Georgia1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 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. Tenika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tenika around the world
Where Tenika 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.
- South Australia1991–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tenika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tenika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tenika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.