Kanika
Kanika was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,030 among girls’ names; 1,254 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Kanika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 33 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kanika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kanika?
#14,030 among girls’ names, 2025
Kanika entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,030 in 2025.
95 babies in 1978, the peak
Kanika peaked in 1978, when 95 girls were given it, #1,284 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,030 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,327 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,262 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,468 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,890 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,645 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,985 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,133 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,734 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,779 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,562 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,888 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,749 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,939 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,939 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,990 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,342 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,281 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,003 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,231 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,494 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,504 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,767 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,521 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,308 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,504 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,753 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,601 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,373 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,600 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,865 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,747 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,723 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,832 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,371 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,100 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,510 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,492 | 22.6 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,745 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,863 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,834 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,850 | 35.5 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,614 | 43.6 |
| 1978 | 95 | #1,284 | 62.0 |
| 1977 | 88 | #1,318 | 57.4 |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,435 | 49.8 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,388 | 52.1 |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,568 | 41.6 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,150 | 25.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kanika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kanika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kanika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kanika, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,254 Americans ever recorded as Kanika. The median Kanika alive today is 44 years old; half are between 33 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,779 people named Kanika (1,769 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 461 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 82 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,359 babies since 1880, Kanika is the most given (92% of them).
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 Kanika
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 Kanika and names like it
- Compare Kanika and KanekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKanika peaked in 1978.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kanika since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kanika.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kanika alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.