Onika
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.
Onika by the numbers
Onika was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 26 babies in 1975, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Onika
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 Onika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Oniya5 in the US (2017)
- Olivaolive tree; variant of Olivia22 in the US (2017)
- Olinaoleander flower; a form of olina or oline18 in the US (2017)
- Onorahonor; a form of Honora3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Omniaall things; everything4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Oneidastanding stone; people of the standing stone5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Onika
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