Tanieka — girls' name
146 babies named Tanieka in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Tanieka was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Tanieka in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tanieka
The Social Security Administration has registered 146 babies named Tanieka between 1975 and 1996, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanieka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanieka performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 60 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tanieka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tanieka 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 146 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.
Tanieka at a glance
Last recorded 1996Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tanieka popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–1975
- Peak year (1979)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1996.
146 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 13 births in a single year.
Tanieka by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 60 births that decade — 41% of Tanieka's all-time total
Tanieka decade highlights
- Peak decade 60 births
- Runner-up 53 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Tanieka's strongest decade
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1975–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.