Given name & surname
Alika
“one who is honest”
Alika is used as a given name and a surname. One Hawaiian interpretation is “one who is honest.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hawaiian interpretation is “one who is honest.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hawaiian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,205
- 635 boys · 570 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −57%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,042 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alika’s family of names
Alika has a related form in Alicca. Alika has a related form in Alicka. Alika has a related form in Alycca.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alika
- Alika MilovaEstonian singer-songwriter (born 2002)
- Alika KinanArgentina-born feminist and anti-trafficking activistborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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