girls:
10.5k births since 1966
#1539 (73rd percentile)
overall:
10.5k births since 1966
#2579 (67th percentile)
The name Danika is the #2,579 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,545 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 66.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,539 (73.1% percentile) for all time with 10,545 births since 1966.
Danika first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (first recorded for girls in 1966).
For girls, Danika reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 57.5% percentile (ranked #420) with 335 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 335 births per million (ranked 57.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Danika ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danika".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Danika. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Danika is pronounced as DA-nih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-NEE-kuh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AE1 N IH0 K AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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