Tamika

Where Tamika comes from

The dictionaries list Tamika as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #5,414 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #130
    2,159 babies named Tamika — more than any year before or since.
  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.