Tamika
Tamika was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 22,850 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,800 Americans named Tamika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 42 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamika is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,494, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
2,170 babies in 1975, the peak
Tamika peaked in 1975, when 2,170 babies were given it (2,159 girls, #130 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,494 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,430 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,473 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,278 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,656 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,618 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,037 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,785 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,944 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,863 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #10,354 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,110 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,602 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,522 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,040 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,080 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,362 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,360 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,080 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,647 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,847 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,873 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,299 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,069 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,630 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,522 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,435 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 147 | #1,172 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,120 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 220 | #879 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 259 | #786 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 325 | #667 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 405 | #572 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 381 | #575 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 491 | #456 | 0.28 |
| 1987 | 545 | #409 | 0.31 |
| 1986 | 558 | #402 | 0.33 |
| 1985 | 704 | #336 | 0.41 |
| 1984 | 833 | #289 | 0.49 |
| 1983 | 922 | #257 | 0.55 |
| 1982 | 1,056 | #239 | 0.62 |
| 1981 | 1,187 | #221 | 0.71 |
| 1980 | 1,279 | #202 | 0.77 |
| 1979 | 1,412 | #187 | 0.88 |
| 1978 | 1,638 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 1,695 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1976 | 1,866 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1975 | 2,159 | #130 | 1.5 |
| 1974 | 1,040 | #247 | 0.71 |
| 1973 | 808 | #293 | 0.55 |
| 1972 | 627 | #353 | 0.41 |
| 1971 | 401 | #482 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 259 | #636 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 174 | #773 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 183 | #726 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 35 | #2,008 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,241 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,130 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamika has been given almost only to girls: 90 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tamika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamika, and how old are they?
21,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 22,850 Americans ever recorded as Tamika. The median Tamika alive today is 47 years old; half are between 42 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 18,804 people named Tamika (18,762 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 58 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 687 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 75 |
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 Tamika born?
The states with the most babies named Tamika are New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,233 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,627 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 1,605 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 1,543 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 1,210 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 1,182 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 1,140 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 1,086 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 1,031 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 1,005 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Tamika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamika is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1951 it was given 4.5 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 Tamika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,858 babies since 1880, Tamika is the most given (50% 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 Tamika
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 Tamika and names like it
- Compare Tamika and TamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamika peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamika since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Tamika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tamika.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamika alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.