Kanika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a grain; an atom; an ear of corn; heart of wheat
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Kanika is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 187K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia≈1 in 1.3M
- PLPoland1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kanika itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 named กรรณิการ์, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)24 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jannika in FI Finland, SE Sweden, กรรณิการ์ in TH Thailand, Konika in BD Bangladesh and Kannika in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a grain; an atom; an ear of corn; heart of wheat.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kanika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #47 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | register #393 | กรรณิการ์ | 156 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Kannika | 17 |
| BD Bangladesh | #642 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Konika | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,779 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Kanika | 177 |
| FI Finland | — | 601as Jannika | 1 in 9.3K | 625 | Jannika | 28 |
| SE Sweden | — | 311as Jannika | 1 in 33K | 311 | Jannika | 15 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Kanika | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kanika is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Kenyan: 'black material'; from Swahili kaniki 'dark cotton cloth'.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Latvian, Bieza maizes rika, biezs maizes gabals, šķēle
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kanika Banerjeeb. 1924INIndian singer
- Kanika Kapoorb. 1978INIndian singer
- Kanika Maheshwarib. 1981INIndian television actress
- Kanika Dhillonb. 1984INIndian writer
- Kanika Paul-Payneb. 1989TTTrinidadian sport cyclist
- Kanika Becklesb. 1991GDGrenadian sprinter
- Kanika Mannb. 1993INmodel and actress from India
- Kanika BrownUSAmerican politician from North Carolina
- Kanika AmbroseCACanadian playwright
- Kanika PuriUSassistant professor of clinical pediatrics
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,196 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,210 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #15,188 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #8,196 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kanika mean, and where does it come from?
- a grain; an atom; an ear of corn; heart of wheat. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Kanika a male or female name?
- Kanika is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Kanika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named กรรณิการ์ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kanika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,779 people named Kanika in 2020, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
- How common is Kanika compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Kanika is the 47th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanikaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kanika” — the 47th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.