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Danyka

Girl · DAN-ih-kuh · Slavic

Danyka is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “morning star”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Danyka mean?

Slavic: probably a variant of Danica, from Slavic danica 'morning star'

“morning star”

Probably a variant of Danica, from the Slavic word danica, meaning morning star.

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DAN-ih-kuh

Is Danyka a girl's or a boy's name?

Danyka is a girls' name.

How popular is Danyka in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the girls named Danyka in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 32 in 20082020
Danyka in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20205#15,083
20190–
20187#12,459
20175#15,898
20166#14,326
20159#10,861
201416#7,300
201310#10,230
201217#7,140
201111#9,719
201026#5,245
200923#5,889
200832#4,646
200719#6,808
200612#9,282
20058#11,828
20046#14,172
20030–
20025#15,426
20017#12,049
20000–
19995#14,403
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19935#13,435

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