Taneeka
Taneeka was last recorded in 1994, when 8 babies were given it; 194 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taneeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taneeka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,441, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1977, the peak
Taneeka peaked in 1977, when 17 girls were given it, #4,213 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 8 | #10,441 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,377 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,825 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,965 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,671 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,294 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,074 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,497 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,054 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,911 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 | #10,368 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,861 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,516 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,967 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,922 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,213 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,136 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,937 | 6.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,014 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,485 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taneeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taneeka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taneeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taneeka, and how old are they?
An estimated 186 Americans named Taneeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 39 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 167 people named Taneeka (162 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,175 babies since 1880, Taneeka is the fifth most given (2.7% 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 Taneeka
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 Taneeka and names like it
- Compare Taneeka and TanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTaneeka peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taneeka since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Taneeka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Taneeka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.