Danica
Danica is a girl name of Slavic origin, meaning Morning star.
What Danica means
Morning star.
Danica sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Danica comes from
Slavic names are commonly built from two clear elements — peace, glory, world, love — combined into a compound whose meaning reads almost as a wish.
Danica is recorded as Slavic in origin. Browse other Slavic names.
How popular is Danica?
Danica does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Danica
Two ideas meet in Danica: Star and the stars and sky. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Danica
These share Danica's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Dara — Star; maiden.
- Hoshi — Star.
- Nova — New; a blazing star.
- Stella — Star. Shining and celestial.
- Astra — Of the stars.
- Bituin — Star.
- Csilla — Morning star.
- Estelle — Star.
- Haruse — Star.
- Hesper — The evening star.
- Lyra — Lyre; harp.
- Naledi — Star.