Tamika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Tamika is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 6.4Kfew records
- GHGhana≈1 in 7.6Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tamika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Tamika | 4 |
| US United States | #990 | 18,804 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Tamika | 396 |
| GH Ghana | #307 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Tamika | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Tamika | 123 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 48 | Tamika | 129 |
| GA Gabon | #427 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Tamika | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #190 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Tamika | 13 |
| GY Guyana | — | 209 | 1 in 3.6K | 209 | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tamiko Shimizub. 1915JPnot in their usual nameJapanese author of juvenile novels, poet
- Tamiko Thielb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist (born 1957)
- Baby Pozzib. 1963ITnot in their usual nameItalian pornographic film actress
- Tamiko Boltonb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican entrepreneur
- Tamika Whitmoreb. 1977USAmerican basketball player (born 1977)
- Tamika Catchingsb. 1979USAmerican Hall of Fame basketball player
- Tamika Malloryb. 1980USAmerican activist
- Tamika Williamsb. 1980USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Kytamib. 1980CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer, violinist and rapper
- Tamika Mkandawireb. 1983MWassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19K | #1,664 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 209 | #387 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1997 | 48 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42 | #1,664 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tamika a male or female name?
- Tamika is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Tamika mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tamika?
- In the etymology graph, Tameka and Tamiko are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tamika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Tamika in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamika.
- How common is the name Tamika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,804 people named Tamika in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Tamika compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Tamika is the 190th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamikaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tamika” — the 190th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.