Tanika

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables.

Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list

Tanika by the numbers

Its American peak was 314 babies in 1982, making it a 1980s name.

What we can tell you about Tanika

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tanika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Taniafairy queen; a form of Tatiana186 in the US (2017)
  • Taniyaworthy of praise; a modern respelling of Tanya58 in the US (2017)
  • Tanvikaslender, delicate10 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Tamika8 in the US (2017)
  • Taneka
  • Tenika

Names about as common as Tanika

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