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Janika

“God is gracious”

unisexfeminineLatin script

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Origin: Not established
6 language contexts: German Dutch Danish +3 more
Follow the evidence: 11 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Janika

Janika is a unisex given name documented in German, Dutch, Danish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it. It is a form of Johanna, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “God is gracious”.

2 source accounts

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “God is gracious”

20th century variant of Johanna (Janina, Janita) inspired by the fashionable Annika, Marika type names. Analyzable as a feminine form of Jani.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

German Wiktionary accountSource-reported[1] weibliche Form zu Janik

[1] weibliche Form zu Janik

Sources for this account (1)

German Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Janika is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Janika’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 6 girls (rank 13208).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Janika

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 6; applications; Rank #13,208
Peak year: 1991; 38 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Janika in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	8	5,959	observed
1973	7	6,666	observed
1974	8	6,258	observed
1975	14	4,370	observed
1976	20	3,407	observed
1977	22	3,366	observed
1978	18	3,924	observed
1979	26	3,147	observed
1980	23	3,506	observed
1981	26	3,253	observed
1982	23	3,530	observed
1983	33	2,659	observed
1984	26	3,233	observed
1985	28	3,170	observed
1986	25	3,459	observed
1987	33	2,915	observed
1988	22	4,015	observed
1989	25	3,893	observed
1990	31	3,436	observed
1991	38	2,989	observed
1992	32	3,419	observed
1993	32	3,422	observed
1994	19	5,016	observed
1995	18	5,221	observed
1996	26	4,059	observed
1997	23	4,508	observed
1998	18	5,583	observed
1999	10	8,805	observed
2000	13	7,580	observed
2001	9	10,102	observed
2002	9	10,246	observed
2003	13	7,998	observed
2004	12	8,716	observed
2005	13	8,330	observed
2006	8	12,420	observed
2007	11	10,129	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	8	12,429	observed
2010	8	12,276	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	6	14,582	observed
2014	5	16,513	observed
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	5	16,215	observed
2017	8	11,615	observed
2018	10	9,806	observed
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	7	12,243	observed
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	6	13,208	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Janika” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Janika with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms9

Wikidata Q13569896CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Janika.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Janika.oggCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Janika

2 source accounts

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “God is gracious”

20th century variant of Johanna (Janina, Janita) inspired by the fashionable Annika, Marika type names. Analyzable as a feminine form of Jani.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

German Wiktionary accountSource-reported[1] weibliche Form zu Janik

[1] weibliche Form zu Janik

Sources for this account (1)

German Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Janika is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Janika’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 6 girls (rank 13208).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Janika

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 6; applications; Rank #13,208
Peak year: 1991; 38 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Janika in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	8	5,959	observed
1973	7	6,666	observed
1974	8	6,258	observed
1975	14	4,370	observed
1976	20	3,407	observed
1977	22	3,366	observed
1978	18	3,924	observed
1979	26	3,147	observed
1980	23	3,506	observed
1981	26	3,253	observed
1982	23	3,530	observed
1983	33	2,659	observed
1984	26	3,233	observed
1985	28	3,170	observed
1986	25	3,459	observed
1987	33	2,915	observed
1988	22	4,015	observed
1989	25	3,893	observed
1990	31	3,436	observed
1991	38	2,989	observed
1992	32	3,419	observed
1993	32	3,422	observed
1994	19	5,016	observed
1995	18	5,221	observed
1996	26	4,059	observed
1997	23	4,508	observed
1998	18	5,583	observed
1999	10	8,805	observed
2000	13	7,580	observed
2001	9	10,102	observed
2002	9	10,246	observed
2003	13	7,998	observed
2004	12	8,716	observed
2005	13	8,330	observed
2006	8	12,420	observed
2007	11	10,129	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	8	12,429	observed
2010	8	12,276	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	6	14,582	observed
2014	5	16,513	observed
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	5	16,215	observed
2017	8	11,615	observed
2018	10	9,806	observed
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	7	12,243	observed
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	6	13,208	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms9

Wikidata Q13569896CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanikaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Janika.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Janika.oggCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Janika

Meaning in the sources

Where Janika is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Janika

Meaning in the sources

Where Janika is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page