girls:
4.5k births since 1968
#2530 (56th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1968
#4063 (47th percentile)
The name Tanika is the #4,063 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,522 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 47.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,530 (55.7% percentile) for all time with 4,522 births since 1968.
Tanika first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Tanika is available in 44 out of the 49 years between 1968 and 2016. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Tanika reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 37.2% percentile (ranked #475) with 183 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 192 births per million (ranked 36.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tanika".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tanika. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.3% confident that Tanika is pronounced as tuh-NEE-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-NEE-kuh, at 28.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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