Given name
Kanika
“a dark, beautiful woman”
Kanika is used as a given name. One African interpretation is “a dark, beautiful woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “a dark, beautiful woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kanika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,254
- 0 boys · 1,254 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 95 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,034 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −49%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,034 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 95 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,779 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.
Kanika’s family of names
Kanika has a related form in Kaneacka. Kanika has a related form in Kaneaka. Kanika has a related form in Kaneecka.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Kannikalikely variant
- Kanikkalikely variant
- Kaneackavariant
- Kaneakavariant
- Kaneeckavariant
- Kaneekavariant
- Kanyckavariant
- Kanickavariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kanika
- Kanika KapoorIndian singerborn 1978
- Kanika MaheshwariIndian television actressborn 1981
- Kanika Mannmodel and actress from Indiaborn 1993
- Kanika BanerjeeIndian singer1924–2000
- Kanika BecklesGrenadian sprinterborn 1991
- Kanika DhillonIndian writerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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