Tamica
Tamica was last recorded in 2003, when 6 babies were given it; 2,139 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,040 Americans named Tamica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 44 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,566, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
180 babies in 1976, the peak
Tamica peaked in 1976, when 180 girls were given it, #789 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #15,566 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,334 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,275 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,991 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,579 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,272 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 23 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,890 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,657 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,924 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,607 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,805 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,510 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 86 | #1,387 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 102 | #1,267 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 115 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 124 | #1,109 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 158 | #938 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 159 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 141 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 180 | #789 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 165 | #825 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 133 | #937 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 107 | #1,083 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 84 | #1,247 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,682 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,155 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,505 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,401 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamica, and how old are they?
2,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,139 Americans ever recorded as Tamica. The median Tamica alive today is 48 years old; half are between 44 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,797 people named Tamica (1,795 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,063 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 671 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 43 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tamica born?
The states with the most babies named Tamica are Texas, Illinois and New York, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 166 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 121 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 121 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 101 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 100 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 98 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 72 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 69 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Tamica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamica is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1967 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tamica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Tamica?
Tamica is a less common spelling of Tamika: SSA has recorded 2,139 Tamica and 22,850 Tamika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,099 babies since 1880, Tamica is the fourth most given (4.9% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tamica
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tamica and names like it
- Compare Tamica and TamikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamica peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamica since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Tamica.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamica alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.