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Across the world, 鹿 (Sika , 鹿 ) is a common epicene given name. The first name 鹿 is habitual in Ghana, where it is quite a rare unisex name, Algeria, where it is quite a rare mostly male, but uncommonly feminine name, and Egypt. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in India, China, and Ethiopia. More frequently, 鹿 is the last name as well as the forename.
鹿 is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sika , the character from novel Ivkova slava, Ivko's patron saint's day: a short story.