Danika
Danika was given to 69 girls in 2025, #2,550 among girls’ names; 10,697 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,500 Americans named Danika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danika is “a female given name from the Slavic languages, variant of Danica.”
A spelling variant of Danica, a female given name of Slavic origin.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danika?
#2,550 among girls’ names, 2025
Danika fell from #1,006 in 2015 to #2,550 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.04 per 1,000.
709 babies in 2007, the peak
Danika peaked in 2007, when 709 girls were given it, #454 among girls’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,550 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,352 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,182 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,785 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 115 | #1,772 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,733 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,511 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,349 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 166 | #1,387 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,121 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 267 | #1,006 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 357 | #784 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 361 | #750 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 414 | #682 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 475 | #605 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 579 | #516 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 659 | #470 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 648 | #487 | 0.34 |
| 2007 | 709 | #454 | 0.37 |
| 2006 | 509 | #576 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 298 | #848 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 182 | #1,220 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,350 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 160 | #1,243 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 157 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 151 | #1,281 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 139 | #1,303 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 147 | #1,236 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 143 | #1,244 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 174 | #1,063 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 153 | #1,142 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 189 | #976 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 183 | #1,012 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 205 | #943 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 181 | #1,013 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 219 | #881 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 211 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 144 | #1,091 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 110 | #1,275 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,424 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,474 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,504 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,437 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,476 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 59 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 97 | #1,312 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,431 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 71 | #1,530 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,352 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,622 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,096 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,613 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,079 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,044 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,818 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,781 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danika, and how old are they?
10,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,697 Americans ever recorded as Danika. The median Danika alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 9,156 people named Danika (9,152 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 631 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,250 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Danika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,862 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,283 | 0.4× |
Where Danika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danika is most over-represented in Washington: since 1966 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Danika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,544 babies since 1880, Danika is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 196 babies (35%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Danika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Danika and names like it
- Compare Danika and DanicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDanika peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danika since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Danika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.