Kanika
#14,030 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kanika has been given to 1,254 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #14,030 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Kanika, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kanika over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kanika?
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
- #14,030
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kanika sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanika was born before 1982 — so the typical Kanika is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 39.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,254
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (500).
Is Kanika 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
- +297
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,140
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 6.3%
- Peak was 1978 (95)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kanika
Kanika is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 31.3% against Kanika's 0.18%.
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 Kanika is used
Across 1910–2025, Kanika was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 312,148 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3Alabama1 in —
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 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. Kanika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kanika around the world
Where Kanika 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,927in 2025
- France2011–2022#7,297in 2022
- Canada1993–2021#2,930in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kanika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kanika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kanika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.