Temika

Last seen for girls in 1995 at #13,386

Peak · girls
1976 · 73 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
911
since 1968

Temika over time

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Rank among girls' names. Temika has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201968peak #1,433, 1976girls
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1995#13,3865
1994#13,4305
1993#8,05210
1992#8,7349
1991#11,5096
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1989#6,16013
1988#3,39328
1987#4,12220
1986#3,13529
1985#2,80433
1984#2,38240
1983#1,92753
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1970#7,0706
1969#5,9747
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Temika! It came in at #5,642, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1994–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Temika
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1995
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1976 at #1,433 (73 births)
  • Births halved by 1985, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 19,639
  • Highest: 1 in 19,639 girls born in 1978 were named Temika (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 351,710 girls born in 1995 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,433 in 1976, was only 1 in 20,070 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 46.9% of all girls named Temika (427) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s14#5,642 (1968)#5,808
1970s427#1,433 (1976)#3,120
1980s409#1,566 (1982)#2,923
1990s61#3,909 (1990)#9,837

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Temika in 1968

girls
#5,642
7 births · 1 in 234,341 girls

Top girls' names in 1968

  1. #1Lisa49,534
  2. #2Michelle33,223
  3. #3Kimberly31,906
  4. #4Jennifer26,853
  5. #5Melissa21,733
  6. #6Mary21,727
  7. #7Angela20,670
  8. #8Tammy20,058
  9. #9Karen19,560
  10. #10Susan19,503
  11. #5,642Temika7
More about 1968

girls

1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 234,341 of them was named Temika, which outranked 31.2% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Temika
  1. #5,147Yuki8
  2. #5,147Yuri8
  3. #5,147Yvonda8
  4. #5,642Temika7
  5. #5,642Adair7
  6. #5,642Adine7
  7. #5,642Agripina7
  8. #6,246Abigayle6
  9. #6,246Acquanetta6
  10. #6,246Adana6

Tied with 603 names at #5,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. 3,132Coretta#3,656#524
  2. 1,257Tamika#1,980#723
  3. 1,150Tamiko#1,702#552
  4. 607Chantel#1,348#741
  5. 490Chantal#1,441#951
Fallers
  1. 602Wende#857#1,459
  2. 545Zina#959#1,504
  3. 341Evonne#970#1,311
  4. 294Portia#902#1,196
  5. 285Mariann#973#1,258

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1968