Taneka — girls' name

What the Data Says About Taneka

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,519 babies named Taneka between 1970 and 2012, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taneka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 106 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taneka performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 639 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Taneka shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 61 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Taneka in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taneka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,519 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.