Avika

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
9
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2788
9 babies

Avika by the numbers

In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Avika. In the US, 34 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 50 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Avika

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Avika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Anikasweet-faced or graceful499 in the US (2017)
  • Avivaspring or living; alive and vibrant104 in the US (2017)
  • Aviafeminine form of avius, relating to birds or travel93 in the US (2017)
  • Advikaunique, incomparable, one of a kind16 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Alikatruth or truthful32 in the US (2017)
  • Aviyamy father is God; a form of Aviah12 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Avika

Names that are said the same way as Avika, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Aavika3 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Avika

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