Danika

Where Danika comes from

A spelling variant of Danica, a female given name of Slavic origin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Danika
  • Slavic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #6,564 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Danika Holbrook-Harris born
    American rower
  3. 1998
    Danika Yarosh born
    American actress
  4. 2007
    Peak, #454
    709 babies named Danika — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,006.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Slavic languages, variant of Danica.
Namesakes
  • Danika Yarosh · American actress, born 1998
  • Danika Holbrook-Harris · American rower, born 1972

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.