Janika — girls' name

What the Data Says About Janika

The Social Security Administration has registered 779 babies named Janika between 1972 and 2022, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janika performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 264 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Janika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Janika in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janika in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 779 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.