Karnika is a name of Sanskrit origin, meaning heart of the lotus.
Karnika is a compound name. Its parts are níkē — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.
Karnika does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Karnika reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.