Taika
Boy · TYE-ka
Taika is a boys' name, meaning “magic”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Taika mean?
Finnish taika 'magic'; also a Maori name
“magic”
Made familiar by New Zealand film director Taika Waititi, who is of Maori descent.
- Say it
- TYE-ka
Is Taika a girl's or a boy's name?
Taika is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Taika in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 8 boys.
Taika in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 8 | #2,562 |
How popular is Taika in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Taika, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 2018.
2025 had fewer boys named Taika than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Taika in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Taika in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,439 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,566 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,231 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
Names like Taika
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kairo Loki Yug Rumi Mika Shko Minh Yoan Dakota Tai Yitzchok Yunus