In 2025, 69 US girls were named Danika, making it the 2,550th most common girls’ name of the year, down 198 places from #2,352 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 78 girls named Danika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #454, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 709. For comparison, it was #1,006 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danika in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 10,697 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,623 babies named Danika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,283 US girls were named Danika; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,294 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Danika ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,283 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Danica (16,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daneeka, Dannaka and Danykah are summarised on this page.