The spelling Danika is of modern English origin and is based on the old Slavic name Danica. In Slavic folklore, Danica is the personification of the morning star, which is why the name is associated with this meaning.
Danika is a first name for girls.
Danika is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,034 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,033 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Danika.
The spelling Danika is of modern English origin and is based on the old Slavic name Danica. In Slavic folklore, Danica is the personification of the morning star, which is why the name is associated with this meaning.
Danika became a little... more popular in the late 2000s after the release of the thriller film 'Danika' starring Marisa Tomei.
Danika is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Danika cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #434 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2007. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Danika, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Danika seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danika was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
113 babies were named Danika in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,311,787 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Danika ranked 1,622 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Danika is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Danika and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Danika, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Koala
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danika
Danika
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
N
I
K
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
N
I
K
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Danika sounds like this:
