Tenika — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tenika

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,029 babies named Tenika between 1971 and 1998, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tenika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 157 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenika performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 579 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tenika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tenika in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenika 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 1,029 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.