Tinika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tinika has been given to 565 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1976, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Tinika, 1996
1 in 608,000
Tinika 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tinika?
Tinika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,209 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tinika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tinika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tinikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tinika was born before 1978 — so the typical Tinika is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 55.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 565
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (313).
Is Tinika 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 1976 (49)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Tinika
Tinika is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 63.6% against Tinika's 0.12%.
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 Tinika is used
Across 1910–2025, Tinika was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 488,900 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Tinika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tinika around the world
Where Tinika 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 & Wales1997–1997#3,824in 1997
- South Australia1989–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tinika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tinika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tinika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.