Tanika

Where Tanika comes from

The dictionaries list Tanika as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    Tanika Gupta born
    English playwright
  2. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,489 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1976
    Peak, #558
    302 babies named Tanika — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,042.
  5. 1987
    Tanika Charles born
    Canadian singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Tanika Charles · Canadian singer, born 1987
  • Tanika Gupta · English playwright, born 1963

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.