Yamika

Girls' name

Night

Yamika has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1975, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Yamika, 1993

1 in 754,000

Yamika over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yamika: meaning, origin, and history

Night

Sanskrit

What Yamika means

Yamika means “night”, associated with yāmikā.

Origin, language, and formation

Yamika is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 50 girls were recorded with the name Yamika between 1973 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1975; its best national rank was #7,157 in 1975.

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 Yamika?

Yamika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 754,000; 5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 362,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 522,458 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yamika 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yamika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yamikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yamika was born before 1977 — so the typical Yamika is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 50; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Yamika 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1975 (8)
Years since peak: 50; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,157; 1975

Spellings of Yamika

Yamika is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 30.4% against Yamika's 0.01%.

Camila30.4%123,854
Amira6.3%25,609
Tamika5.6%22,760
Kamila4.9%20,098
Amina4.7%19,270
Anika4.1%16,804
Yadira3.2%12,815
Tamia3.1%12,782

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.

Yamika 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: #7,157; 1975
Peak year: 1975; 8 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 50
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yamika

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

Yamani Yamily Yamira Yamini Yamely Yamina Adrika Yamari Ruhika Yami Eshika Onnika Yuvika Yamili Nivika Yamaris Nirvika Yamara Arshika Vanika Aarnika Yamiles Yamille Yamiah

Sibling names for Yamika

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

For a sister

Cary Karie Brandee Sunshine Kisha Ami Susannah Misti

For a brother

Giuseppe Abdul Demond Andrea Jamey Chadwick Torrey Federico

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