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Danika

#2,550 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Danica

Danika has been given to 10,697 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #2,550 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 709 recorded.

Babies named Danika, 2025

1 in 48,000

Danika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danika: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Danica

Slavic languages

What Danika means

Danika is a variant of Danica.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Danika → Danica. The family’s meaning is “morning star, Venus”, recorded in the naming reference for Danica.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A spelling variant of Danica, a female given name of Slavic origin.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Danika (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Danika is used in English. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Danica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,697 girls were recorded with the name Danika between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 709 in 2007; its best national rank was #454 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,733 in 2020 to #2,550 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,006 in 2015 to #2,550 in 2025.

How common is Danika?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,550
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danika sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danika was born before 2007 — so the typical Danika is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,697
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (3,623).

Is Danika rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−198
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−817
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,544
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.7%
Peak was 2007 (709)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#454
2007

Spellings of Danika

Danika is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 24.1% against Danika's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Danika is used

Across 2016–2025, Danika was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 15,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 4,762
  2. 2Oregon1 in 5,263
  3. 3Colorado1 in 7,692
  4. 4California1 in 9,091
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 9,091
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 11,111
  7. 7Idaho1 in 12,500
  8. 8Texas1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Danika around the world

Where Danika ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2012
    #451
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1986–2006
    #764
    in 2006
  • France
    2007–2021
    #6,713
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Danika

People whose public names include Danika, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Danika by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,550
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 817
Best rank ever
#454
2007
Peak year
2007
709 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,697
Count in 2025
69

Names similar to Danika

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DanielDanicaDanetteDaniaDanaeDannikaMonikaDannieDaniDanitaDannaDanyaDanieleAnnikaDaniyaMalikaDaneenDanyelleDanniDanishaDanelleAnikaJessikaDaniyah

Names with a curve like Danika

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Danika, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NataleeJoslynKaylenKaylynnShylaJoselynCayleeCherishKaelynShailaPatienceNataly

Sibling names for Danika

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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