Tenika
Tenika was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 1,029 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tenika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tenika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,374, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
157 babies in 1982, the peak
Tenika peaked in 1982, when 157 girls were given it, #949 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,374 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,699 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,474 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,737 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,372 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,455 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,790 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,064 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,802 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,973 | 19.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 37 | #2,713 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,266 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,355 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,957 | 31.5 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,495 | 46.1 |
| 1982 | 157 | #949 | 92.7 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,055 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,884 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,855 | 36.1 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,892 | 34.6 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,876 | 35.2 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,933 | 32.1 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,093 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,417 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,743 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,070 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,501 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tenika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tenika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tenika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tenika, and how old are they?
An estimated 988 Americans named Tenika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 40 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 845 people named Tenika (843 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 999 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,677 babies since 1880, Tenika is the most given (61% 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 Tenika
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 Tenika and names like it
- Compare Tenika and TenekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTenika peaked in 1982.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tenika since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Tenika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tenika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.