# Tamika (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tamika/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 22,850 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 90 / 22,760 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 370, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 19 | 7,044 |
| 2009 | 21 | 6,525 |
| 2010 | 20 | 6,605 |
| 2011 | 10 | 11,116 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10,359 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,868 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,950 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,790 |
| 2016 | 6 | 16,042 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,622 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,661 |
| 2019 | 9 | 11,283 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,478 |
| 2021 | 5 | 17,435 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17,499 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 11 | 3,408 |
| 1976 | 16 | 2,695 |
| 1977 | 8 | 4,541 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,685 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,965 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,455 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,163 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,210 |
| 1989 | 14 | 4,000 |
| 1990 | 8 | 6,345 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,462 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 25 | 1,126 |
| 2008 | 21 | 1,344 |
| 2009 | 20 | 1,411 |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,392 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Tamika

- Tamika Catchings, American Hall of Fame basketball player
- Tamika Mallory, American activist
- Tamika Whitmore, American basketball player (born 1977)
- Tamika Williams, American basketball player-coach

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.