In 2025, 11 US girls were named Onika, making it the 9,311th most common girls’ name of the year, up 763 places from #10,074 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 10 girls named Onika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,860, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #9,987 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Onika in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 7 babies. In all, 691 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 161 babies named Onika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 89 US girls were named Onika; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.