Kanika

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kanika is a 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. Recorded meaning: a grain; an atom; an ear of corn; heart of wheat.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 187K(measured from records)
  • THThailand≈1 in 1.4Kas กรรณิการ์
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 15Kas Konika

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈50,000 named กรรณิการ์, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Cambodia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KanikaLatin(measured from records)
กรรณิกาThai(measured from records)
КаникаCyrillic(measured from records)

24 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled กรรณิการ์ in TH Thailand, Konika in BD Bangladesh, Jannika in FI Finland 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.

Sources 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.

Where Kanika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand#47≈50,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K#393กรรณิการ์156
ID Indonesia—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 23K—Kannika17
BD Bangladesh#642≈11,000 est.≈1 in 15KlistedKonika27
KH Cambodia—≈3,200 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Kanika32
CN China—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 528K—Kanika5
US United States—1,7791 in 187K1.8KKanika177
FI Finland—601as Jannika1 in 9.3K625Jannika28

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kanika is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ka-Nika, Kàñikà, Ķåñikà, Känïkä, Kaenïkae

  • Arabic given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written Kanïka, Käñíkå, Kániká

  • Norwegian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Kãnìkā

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

19201940196019802000Kanika Banerjee, b. 1924Kanika Kapoor, b. 1978Kanika Maheshwari, b. 1981Kanika Dhillon, b. 1984Kanika Paul-Payne, b. 1989Kanika Beckles, b. 1991Kanika Mann, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.

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 in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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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 2026-10-10.

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