Yanika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kongo: 'to dry in the sun'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yanika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 48Kas ญานิกา(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 819Kas Яника
- NONorway≈1 in 1.2M
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 Yanika 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
3,028 named Janika
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Яника in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, ญานิกา in TH Thailand and Janika in FI Finland.
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)
Kongo: 'to dry in the sun'
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yanika 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 3,028as Janika | 1 in 1.8K | 3.2K | Janika | 4 |
| TH Thailand | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | #178,097 | ญานิกา | 71 |
| US United States | 719as Janika | 1 in 463K | 714 | Yanika | 27 |
| RU Russia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 819K | — | Яника | 91 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Яника | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 52as Yanila | 1 in 65K | 52 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 20as Janika | 1 in 105K | 20 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 16as Janika | 1 in 118K | 16 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 12 | — | 1 |
3,028 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SURS — resident population given names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Yanika is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
To dry in the sun.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Yanika Polidanob. 1990MTbadminton player
- Yanika Fenechb. 1990MTMaltese association football player
- Yanika Yodchompub. 1998THbadminton player
- Yanika Vartlaanb. 1999UAEstonian-Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast (born 1999)
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 19 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 120 | #50,139 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #28,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #50,139 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1995 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Yanika mean, and where does it come from?
- Kongo: 'to dry in the sun' Recorded by African Names.
- Is Yanika a male or female name?
- Yanika 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 Yanika have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Janika, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yanika?
- In Finland, the national register counted 3,028 people named Janika, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yanika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yanikaThe 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, “Yanika”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.