Given name & surname
Hanika
“a graceful woman”
Hanika is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “a graceful woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “a graceful woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hanika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20
- 0 boys · 20 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 195 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hanika’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Hanika has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Hana. Hanika has a related form in Haneaka. Hanika has a related form in Haneakah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Haneakahvariant
- Haneakavariant
- Haniekahvariant
- Haniekavariant
- Haneikahvariant
- Haneikavariant
- Hanykahvariant
- Hanykavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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