Janika
Janika was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,913 among girls’ names; 785 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janika mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Janika is “a female given name”
20th century variant of Johanna (Janina, Janita) inspired by the fashionable Annika, Marika type names. Analyzable as a feminine form of Jani.
/ˈjɑnikɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janika?
#13,913 among girls’ names, 2025
Janika entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,913 in 2025.
38 babies in 1991, the peak
Janika peaked in 1991, when 38 girls were given it, #2,999 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,913 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,783 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,124 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,087 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,332 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,637 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,402 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,780 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,947 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,410 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #12,863 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,537 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,922 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,196 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,561 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,437 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,750 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,077 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,671 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,570 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,101 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,290 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,102 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,452 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,442 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,999 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,457 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,926 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,070 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,931 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,484 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,188 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,264 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,689 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,567 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,285 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,546 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,183 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,968 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,415 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,443 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,428 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,468 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,940 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,177 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janika, and how old are they?
An estimated 763 Americans named Janika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 719 people named Janika (714 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 756 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 409,908 babies since 1880, Janika is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 90 babies (6.7%), the third most given that year.
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 Janika
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 Janika and names like it
- Compare Janika and JaniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJanika peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janika since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Janika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Janika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.