Meaning not yet researched.
Kanika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,284 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,284 in 1978; #14,034 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kanika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,034 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,284.
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Kanika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,284 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 95 (1978).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Kanika, making it the 14,034th most common girls’ name of the year, up 298 places from #14,332 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 girls named Kanika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,284, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 95. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kanika in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 37 babies. In all, 1,254 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 500 babies named Kanika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 68 US girls were named Kanika; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kaneka and Kanica are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaneka (54), Kanica (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kanika in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,034 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,332 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,268 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,473 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,895 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,650 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,990 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,137 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,738 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,785 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,567 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,895 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,757 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,946 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,945 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,996 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,348 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,287 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,010 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,237 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,501 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,512 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,773 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,526 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,312 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,509 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1978 | 95 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1977 | 88 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,150 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).