Tika — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tika

The Social Security Administration has registered 348 babies named Tika between 1966 and 2001, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 24 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tika performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tika in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tika 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 348 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.