Tinika

Last seen for girls in 1996 at #11,807

Peak · girls
1976 · 49 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
565
since 1967

Tinika over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978peak #1,865, 1976girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1996#11,8076
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1994#10,5697
1993#10,5887
1992#7,51211
1991#6,58813
1990#5,83515
1989#6,53112
1988#9,2447
1987#9,8256
1986#5,75712
1985#7,5638
1984#4,96614
1983#3,43123
1982#2,45139
1981#3,06628
1980#2,74933
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1978#2,15943
1977#2,00248
1976#1,86549
1975#2,35734
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First appearance
1967

The first year at least five girls were named Tinika! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Tinika
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1996
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1967
  • Peaked 1976 at #1,865 (49 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 7 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 29,900
  • Highest: 1 in 29,900 girls born in 1976 were named Tinika (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 292,168 girls born in 1996 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 55.4% of all girls named Tinika (313) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s11#6,246 (1968)#6,525
1970s313#1,865 (1976)#2,811
1980s182#2,451 (1982)#5,558
1990s59#5,835 (1990)#8,817

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.

Tinika in 1978

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#2,159
43 births · 1 in 35,625 girls

Top girls' names in 1978

  1. #1Jennifer56,314
  2. #2Melissa28,327
  3. #3Jessica26,102
  4. #4Amy23,213
  5. #5Heather22,270
  6. #6Amanda20,520
  7. #7Angela20,517
  8. #8Sarah19,976
  9. #9Michelle18,856
  10. #10Nicole17,279
  11. #2,159Tinika43
More about 1978

girls

1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 35,625 of them was named Tinika, which outranked 81.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tinika
  1. #2,125Telisha44
  2. #2,125Wynter44
  3. #2,125Yalonda44
  4. #2,159Tinika43
  5. #2,159Alta43
  6. #2,159Bria43
  7. #2,159Charita43
  8. #2,191Alayna42
  9. #2,191Aliza42
  10. #2,191Alysa42

Tied with 31 names at #2,159; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 4,240Aja#4,652#412
  2. 1,987Kiley#2,606#619
  3. 1,951Kylee#2,838#887
  4. 1,785Winter#2,780#995
  5. 1,620Kylie#2,026#406
Fallers
  1. 913Shalon#868#1,781
  2. 760Farah#854#1,614
  3. 519Tennille#462#981
  4. 398Shawnte#740#1,138
  5. 362Farrah#177#539

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

See the top 100 for 1978