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Danika

Feminine · “morning star”

1966high 2007
#2542 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare69 girls in 2025

Danica is the morning star in Slavic languages — the planet Venus at dawn — from dan, a day.

How old is the name Danika?

Danika first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Danika alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 10,500 people named Danika are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Danika most popular?

Danika peaked in 2007, reaching #454 nationally. Today it ranks #2542, 2,088 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Danika

Danica is the Slavic word for the morning star, and Venus appears as both the morning and evening star — the same planet, which Greek astronomers established. The name is standard in Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Danika is a modern spelling and appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

morning star

From the Slavic danica, 'morning star', from dan, 'day' — the name for Venus seen before sunrise. It is ordinary vocabulary in Serbian, Croatian and Slovene. The Danika spelling is a modern variant. The Slavic is documented.

How the name formed

  1. dan
  2. danica
  3. Danika

Related forms: Даница · Danica · Danica

Pronouncing Danika

DAN-ih-kah

Three syllables, stress on the first. Slavic Danica says it the same way.

Nicknames for Danika

Moderate

DaniThe front of the name, and a name in its own right for both sexes
NikaThe back of the name, and a name of its own in Slavic languages
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1966–202570935507096919662025

US babies named Danika per year from 1966 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#4541960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1966
Most girls named
2007709 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#454reached in 2007
Change vs 2024
−11.5%69 in 2025, from 78
Danika sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2007, with 709 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Danika in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Даница in Serbian — transliteration
  • Danica in Croatian — spelling variant
  • Danica in Slovene — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania.

Danikas among us

10,500

people named Danika are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was named Danika

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Danika

#2542
Danika on the 2025 chart
#764
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Danika went to 69 girls in 2025, but Danica is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 196, which makes it the 764th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,778 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 8,200 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,294 for Danika itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Luz test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Danika's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Luz climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Luz's path sketches the road Danika is walking now.

40%chance Danika will feel dated by 2040
Danika, aligned on its peakLuz· peak 1972not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsLuz · #902Danika today
Danika today is about where Luz stood in 1990 — 18 years past a #454-sized peak. By 2005, Luz had settled around #609.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Danika sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Danika is headed

19662030

US babies named Danika per year, 1966 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Danika is easing off slowly — about 20% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-20% by 2030projected around #3,095 in 2030

High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Danika beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Danika in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Danikathis name69#2542Taelyn69#2542Lennie69#2542Atarah69#2542Alaysha69#2542

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The morning-star meaning is concrete and beautiful.
  • Dani and Nika are two short forms, both real names in their own right.
  • Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
What to consider
  • Danica is the standard spelling.
  • It reads as specifically Slavic.
  • Danika and Danica are both in circulation.

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Frequently asked

How many Danikas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,500 people named Danika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Danika?
Danika is one of 2 recorded spellings. Danica is the more common one — 127 births in 2025 against 69 for Danika.
How popular is the name Danika in 2025?
Danika ranks #2542 among US girl names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Danika?
About 1 in every 23,294 US girls born in 2025 was named Danika — 69 in all.
Will my child share the name Danika with classmates?
Danika will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Danika

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