Danika
#2,542 for girls in 2025, 69 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 709 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,697since 1966
Danika over time
Rank among girls' names. Danika has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,542 | 69 |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 |
| 2023 | #2,176 | 87 |
| 2022 | #1,782 | 115 |
| 2021 | #1,768 | 115 |
| 2020 | #1,728 | 116 |
| 2019 | #1,508 | 144 |
| 2018 | #1,346 | 167 |
| 2017 | #1,387 | 166 |
| 2016 | #1,118 | 226 |
| 2015 | #1,006 | 267 |
| 2014 | #783 | 357 |
| 2013 | #750 | 361 |
| 2012 | #682 | 414 |
| 2011 | #604 | 475 |
| 2010 | #516 | 579 |
| 2009 | #470 | 659 |
| 2008 | #487 | 648 |
| 2007 | #454 | 709 |
| 2006 | #576 | 509 |
| 2005 | #847 | 298 |
| 2004 | #1,220 | 182 |
| 2003 | #1,348 | 150 |
| 2002 | #1,243 | 160 |
| 2001 | #1,253 | 157 |
| 2000 | #1,280 | 151 |
| 1999 | #1,304 | 139 |
| 1998 | #1,236 | 147 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 143 |
| 1996 | #1,064 | 174 |
| 1995 | #1,144 | 153 |
| 1994 | #977 | 189 |
| 1993 | #1,013 | 183 |
| 1992 | #945 | 205 |
| 1991 | #1,016 | 181 |
| 1990 | #883 | 219 |
| 1989 | #874 | 211 |
| 1988 | #1,092 | 144 |
| 1987 | #1,274 | 110 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 |
| 1985 | #1,473 | 84 |
| 1984 | #1,502 | 76 |
| 1983 | #1,434 | 81 |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 |
| 1981 | #1,848 | 59 |
| 1980 | #1,310 | 97 |
| 1979 | #1,431 | 85 |
| 1978 | #1,804 | 56 |
| 1977 | #1,526 | 71 |
| 1976 | #1,422 | 74 |
| 1975 | #1,350 | 79 |
| 1974 | #1,616 | 58 |
| 1973 | #2,094 | 38 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Danika! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Danika is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#354 · 1 in 1,644
- Washington#474 · 1 in 2,657
- Minnesota#588 · 1 in 4,211
- New Jersey#774 · 1 in 5,926
- California#908 · 1 in 7,130
Best ever in a state: #59 in Wyoming, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #354 | 10 | 1 in 1,644 |
| Washington | #474 | 11 | 1 in 2,657 |
| Minnesota | #588 | 6 | 1 in 4,211 |
| New Jersey | #774 | 7 | 1 in 5,926 |
| California | #908 | 31 | 1 in 7,130 |
| Texas | #1,521 | 10 | 1 in 14,344 |
| New York | #1,725 | 6 | 1 in 16,787 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Danika
- 195 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,542)
- 814 spots since 2020 (#1,728 → #2,542)
- 1,536 spots since 2015 (#1,006 → #2,542)
- Biggest jump: 373 spots in 2005 (#1,220 → #847)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 2015 (#783 → #1,006)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2007 at #454 (709 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2005–2014
- Highest: 1 in 2,712 girls born in 2007 were named Danika (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,294 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.9% of all girls named Danika (3,623) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40 | #3,774 (1969) | #4,777 |
| 1970s | 532 | #1,350 (1975) | #1,993 |
| 1980s | 1,033 | #874 (1989) | #1,370 |
| 1990s | 1,733 | #883 (1990) | #1,082 |
| 2000s | 3,623 | #454 (2007) | #918 |
| 2010s | 3,156 | #516 (2010) | #970 |
| 2020s | 580 | #1,728 (2020) | #2,057 |
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.
Danika in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 12,020 of them was named Danika, which outranked 92.6% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,228Shay148
- #1,228Taylar148
- #1,228Yessica148
- #1,236Danika147
- #1,236Angeline147
- #1,236Corrina147
- #1,236Dora147
- #1,242Ada146
- #1,242Aliza146
- #1,242Amaris146
Tied with 5 names at #1,236; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.