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Onika

#9,308 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Onika has been given to 691 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #9,308 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Onika, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Onika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Onika means

Onika is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Popularized by Trinididian-American rapper Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (Nicki Minaj), born 1982.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Onika is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 691 girls were recorded with the name Onika between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,860 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,676 in 2020 to #9,308 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,982 in 2015 to #9,308 in 2025.

How common is Onika?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,308
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Onika 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Onika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Onikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Onika was born before 1994 — so the typical Onika is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
691
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (161).

Is Onika 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
+761
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,368
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+674
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.3%
Peak was 1975 (26)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,860
1975

Spellings of Onika

Onika is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 23.4% against Onika's 0.06%.

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 Onika is used

Across 1910–2025, Onika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 663,237 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Onika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Onika around the world

Where Onika 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #712
    in 1993

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

Onika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,308
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,368
Best rank ever
#2,860
1975
Peak year
1975
26 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
691
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Onika

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

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Sibling names for Onika

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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