first name
TAMIKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 18,804 people named Tamika, 88.9% reported their origin as Black, 3.8% as two or more races and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tamika peaked in 1975, when 2,170 babies got the name.
At least 22,850 babies have been given the name since 1951. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Tamika by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #422. The largest share of babies named Tamika, 59.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tamika is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tamika has been most common in District of Columbia (5.7×), Georgia (2×), and Michigan (1.9×), and least common in Colorado (0.16×).
21,092 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tamika, most common first.
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