first name
TANIKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 3,629 people named Tanika, 83.4% reported their origin as Black, 6.9% as White and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tanika peaked in 1982, when 314 babies got the name.
At least 4,522 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Tanika by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,377. The largest share of babies named Tanika, 48%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tanika is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tanika has been most common in Maryland (4.7×), District of Columbia (4.4×), and Illinois (2.2×), and least common in Missouri (0.48×).
3,169 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 Tanika, most common first.
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