Anika

What Anika means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Anika yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #581 in 2015 to #955 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anika?

US: Falling: down from #581 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #609 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 642 girls got the name (#484 that year). First in the US records in 1961.

How common

• About 1 in 5,975 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,332 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WA (0.62 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.54 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.34 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Anika is #955 in the US and #872 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Anika were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Annika254 US · 13 E&W
• Anaika13 US · 4 E&W
• Onika11 US
• Aarnika9 US
• Annaka6 US
• Onnika6 US
• Anneka6 US
• Aneeka5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Anika

Girls

• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025
• Arianna#234Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #56 in 2015, #234 in 2025
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Isabelle#166Variant of Elizabeth, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Ariana#128Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #46 in 2015, #128 in 2025
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Ivan#162Same root as John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Logan#53“little hollow”^*
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Anika’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.