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Tamika vs Tammra

American parents have registered 22,850 Tamikas since 1880, against 583 Tammras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tamika against Tammra, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tamika Tammra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Tamika for 58 years and Tammra for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tamika Tammra
Total US births 22,850583
Most in one year 2,17040
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 22,000530
Median age today 4656
Peak year 19751969
Best rank 130th girls1,980th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19511957
Girls / boys 22,760 / 90583 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tammras alive today are over 56; half the Tamikas are over 46. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tamika and Tammra.