Tamika
Feminine
Tamika is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 22,760 girls against 90 boys since 1880.
Tamika belongs to the American naming innovation of the later twentieth century — names built from familiar sounds and productive endings rather than inherited from a saints' calendar. It is a made name, and the making is the history.
How old is the name Tamika?
Tamika first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Tamika alive today was born around 1978, making them about 47 years old. About 22,000 people named Tamika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamika most popular?
Tamika peaked in 1975, reaching #130 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Tamika
From the late 1960s, Black American families coined names in large and documented numbers, using a set of recognizable building blocks — the prefixes La-, Sha-, Ta- and De-, and endings borrowed from French, Spanish and Japanese-sounding patterns. The result was a body of names that were new by design rather than by accident. Tamika is among the most successful, rising through the 1970s to a peak around 1980 and continuing in steady use afterward.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
No settled meaning. It is generally understood as a coinage built on the Tam- stem, shared with Tamara and Tammy, plus the -ika ending that also produced Danika and Monika. A separate Japanese name, Tamiko, is written with characters meaning something like 'child of the people', and the resemblance is coincidental rather than a source.
Pronouncing Tamika
tuh-MEE-kuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Tamika and Tameka are said identically.
Nicknames for Tamika
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 19752,159 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #130reached in 1975
- Change vs 2021
- 0.0%5 in 2022, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tamika in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tameka in English — spelling variant
- Tomeka in English — spelling variant
- Tamiko in English — spelling variant
Tamikas among us
people named Tamika are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tamika has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It comes from a documented and deliberate naming tradition, which is a real history even without an etymology.
- Three syllables with a strong middle, a rhythm that carries well when spoken.
- Mika works as a short form and stands on its own internationally.
- It has no inherited meaning, which matters to families for whom that is the point.
- Several spellings are in use, so the written form has to be given.
- The name is closely associated with the 1970s and 1980s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamikas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 22,000 people named Tamika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamika in 2025?
- Tamika is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamika with classmates?
- Tamika will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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