Tenika

Where Tenika comes from

Tenika hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #8,324 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Peak, #947
    157 babies named Tenika — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,485.
  4. 1985
    Tenika Davis born
    Canadian actress and model
  5. 1997
    Tenika Willison born
    New Zealand rugby sevens player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tenika Davis · Canadian actress and model, born 1985
  • Tenika Willison · New Zealand rugby sevens player, born 1997
  • Tenika McGiffin · Australian tennis player, born 1999

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.