Tamika

Where Tamika comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tamika.

  • Vowel-ended
Tamika through the years
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #5,414 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #130
    2,159 babies named Tamika, the most in any year.
  3. 1979
    Tamika Catchings born
    American Hall of Fame basketball player
  4. 1980
    Tamika Mallory born
    American activist
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #239.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes
  • Tamika Catchings · American Hall of Fame basketball player, born 1979
  • Tamika Mallory · American activist, born 1980
  • Tamika Whitmore · American basketball player, born 1977
  • Tamika Williams · American basketball player-coach, born 1980
  • Tamika Mkandawire · association football player, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.