Onika

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Onika is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname325 records spelled Onika10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Оника, Оніка, Onica, Ónica

• French given name203 records spelled Onika3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, South Africa, Gabon

  Also written Önika, Önîkâ

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Onika 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.

• In Māori, onyx

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 58 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Onika Wallersonb. 1985USAmerican cricketer
• Onika Meugens-Hendersonperforming artist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 101 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Onika?

We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Onika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Onika have the most bearers?

We estimate about 762 people bear Onika in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled onika.

Where is Onika most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Onika is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Onika compared with other names?

In Guyana, Onika is the 63rd most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.

Is Onika a male or female name?

Onika 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.