Temika
Feminine
Temika belongs to a family of American names that works the opposite way round from most. Usually a name family shares a front and varies its endings; this one fixes the ending and swaps the fronts.
How old is the name Temika?
Temika first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Temika alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 900 people named Temika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Temika most popular?
Temika peaked in 1976, reaching #1433 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Temika
Take the back half of this name and the fronts that have been attached to it: Ta, Te, Sha, La, Ka, Do. Six openings, one ending, six names in the record, each counted separately. The usual pattern runs the other way — a stem like Mary or Robert keeps its front and grows endings — but in this family the memorable part is the tail, and the front is a slot. That has a practical consequence nobody intends: because the record lists every spelling and every front separately, a family of names that is really one shape appears in the data as a dozen rare names instead of one common one. The sound was far more familiar in its decade than any single spelling of it suggests.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language supplies it. The glosses offered — Japanese, African, occasionally Hebrew — name real languages that do not contain this word, and each has been attached to the name by a name book rather than by any evidence. It was assembled in the United States from pieces already in circulation.
Pronouncing Temika
tuh-MEE-kuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first syllable is unstressed, which is why Temika and Tamika sound the same.
Nicknames for Temika
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
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 197878 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1433reached in 1976
- Change vs 1994
- 0.0%5 in 1995, 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.
Temikas among us
people named Temika 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
Temika sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The stressed middle makes it carry and keeps it from being shortened away.
- It is read correctly on sight by anyone.
- It shortens to a name that stands perfectly well alone.
- Tamika, Tameka and Tomika are all in the record and hers will be written as one of them.
- The name places its bearer in a particular American decade.
- The meanings offered for it online are inventions, and the honest account is about how it was built.
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Frequently asked
- How many Temikas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Temika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Temika in 2025?
- Temika is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Temika with classmates?
- Temika will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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