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Uniqua

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Uniqua has been given to 488 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Uniqua, 2010

1 in 616,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uniqua: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uniqua means

Uniqua is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Uniqua is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 488 girls were recorded with the name Uniqua between 1982 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,364 in 1992.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Uniqua?

Uniqua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uniqua 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 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uniqua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uniquas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uniqua was born before 1992 — so the typical Uniqua is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
81.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
488
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 81.6% of all recorded uses (398).

Is Uniqua 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (122)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
77.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,364
1992

Spellings of Uniqua

Uniqua is not the most common spelling — Unique is, with 81.6% against Uniqua's 5.2%.

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 Uniqua is used

Across 1910–2025, Uniqua was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 457,724 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Mississippi1 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. Uniqua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Uniqua by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,364
1992
Peak year
1992
122 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
488
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Uniqua

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

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Sibling names for Uniqua

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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