Shanika

Where Shanika comes from

From Sinhalese ශානිකා (śānikā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shanika
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #5,818 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #493
    410 babies named Shanika — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,034.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name of Sinhala usage.
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Shanika turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.