Tanica
Tanica was last recorded in 1993, when 8 babies were given it; 253 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tanica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,481, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1977, the peak
Tanica peaked in 1977, when 23 girls were given it, #3,353 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #10,481 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,603 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,274 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,966 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,620 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,153 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,549 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,413 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,854 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,418 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 18 | #4,327 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,938 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,217 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,759 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,230 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,353 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,519 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,820 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,987 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,492 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanica 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 Tanica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanica, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Tanica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 41 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 237 people named Tanica (236 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Tanica?
Tanica is a less common spelling of Tanika: SSA has recorded 253 Tanica and 4,522 Tanika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,254 babies since 1880, Tanica is the fourth most given (3.5% 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 Tanica
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 Tanica and names like it
- Compare Tanica and TanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTanica peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tanica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tanica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.