Tanika — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tanika

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,522 babies named Tanika between 1968 and 2016, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 314 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanika performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,823 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tanika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 379 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Tanika in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tanika 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 4,522 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.