How Many People Are Named Tamika?

21,845

people named Tamika are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 15,645 people in the US has this name

Based on 22,850 babies named Tamika in Social Security records from 1951 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,551

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#829

See the top 100

Peak Year

1975

2,170 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: tə-MEE-kə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of TAMIKO, inspired by the American jazz singer Tamiko Jones (1945-) or the American movie 'A Girl Named Tamiko' (1963).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Tamika in English. Counting Tamika and these spellings together, about 34,068 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.6%
Male
0.4%

Almost all of the babies given the name Tamika (99.6%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Tamika alive today is about 45 years old, and 96% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 41 and 49 in 2025.

Under 30 875
4%
30 to 59 20,896
95.7%
60 and over 73
0.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Tamika first appears in the records in 1951 and was given most often in 1975, to 2,170 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1951 to 2022

🏆 Rank History

Tamika has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #130, in 1975.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#130 (1975)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#224 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Tamika alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Tamika were born in New York than in any other state: about 2,136 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tamika was given 6.1 times as often in District of Columbia, 2.3 times in Georgia and 2.2 times in Alabama.

New York 2,136
Pennsylvania 1,544
Illinois 1,539
Michigan 1,466
Georgia 1,155
California 1,131
Texas 1,089
New Jersey 1,034
Ohio 986
Florida 963
North Carolina 771
Alabama 705
Louisiana 694
Tennessee 666
Virginia 603
District of Columbia 518
Maryland 475
South Carolina 470
Missouri 412
Indiana 395
Mississippi 336
Arkansas 174
Connecticut 157
Wisconsin 154
Massachusetts 141
Kentucky 128
Oklahoma 72
Kansas 61
Arizona 53
Colorado 40
Washington 26
Delaware 24
Minnesota 10
West Virginia 10
Nevada 7
Nebraska 6

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