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Janika

#13,913 in 2025Girls' name

God is gracious, through Johanna

Janika has been given to 785 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #13,913 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Janika, 2025

1 in 553,000

Janika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janika: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Johanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janika means

Janika belongs to the name family reached through Janika → Johanna. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Janika is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanna and Jani.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Janika is pronounced /ˈjɑnikɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 785 girls were recorded with the name Janika between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1991; its best national rank was #2,689 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Janika?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,913
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janika 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janika was born before 1990 — so the typical Janika is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
785
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1980s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (264).

Is Janika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
15.8%
Peak was 1991 (38)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,689
1983

Spellings of Janika

Janika is not the most common spelling — Janice is, with 28.4% against Janika's 0.05%.

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 Janika is used

Across 1910–2025, Janika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,164,662 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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. Janika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janika around the world

Where Janika 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
    2002–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2016
    #2,530
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2002–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Janika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,913
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,689
1983
Peak year
1991
38 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
785
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Janika

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

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Sibling names for Janika

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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