Kanika
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 95 births
- Debut · girls
- 37 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,254since 1973
Kanika over time
Rank among girls' names. Kanika has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 |
| 1988 | #3,805 | 24 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 |
| 1983 | #2,721 | 32 |
| 1982 | #2,830 | 32 |
| 1981 | #1,830 | 60 |
| 1980 | #1,833 | 59 |
| 1979 | #1,605 | 70 |
| 1978 | #1,281 | 95 |
| 1977 | #1,315 | 88 |
| 1976 | #1,433 | 73 |
| 1975 | #1,381 | 76 |
| 1974 | #1,563 | 61 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kanika! It came in at #2,127, and was given to 37 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2009, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kanika
- 269 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #13,208)
- 3,662 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1978 at #1,281 (95 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,125 girls born in 1978 were named Kanika (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.9% of all girls named Kanika (500) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 500 | #1,281 (1978) | #1,529 |
| 1980s | 358 | #1,830 (1981) | #2,901 |
| 1990s | 228 | #3,351 (1993) | #4,631 |
| 2000s | 67 | #7,045 (2002) | #12,371 |
| 2010s | 68 | #9,411 (2016) | #12,692 |
| 2020s | 33 | #9,546 (2020) | #13,000 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kanika in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 16,125 of them was named Kanika, which outranked 88.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,275Hanna96
- #1,275Taneka96
- #1,275Tiffaney96
- #1,281Kanika95
- #1,281Addie95
- #1,281Elvia95
- #1,281Giselle95
- #1,290Claudette94
- #1,290Juliette94
- #1,290Lolita94
Tied with 8 names at #1,281; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.