Annika

What Annika means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,089 babies; 254 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Annika?

US: Falling: down from #565 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1007 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 1,089 girls got the name (#285 that year). First in the US records in 1961.

How common

• About 1 in 6,328 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,483 baby girls in England and Wales 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 MN (0.84 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.61 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.47 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Annika is #995 in the US and #2138 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 Annika were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anika269 US · 40 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 Annika

Girls

• Isabel#176“my God is an oath”^*
• Abigail#41“my Father's joy”^*
• Daniela#302Form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*
• Makayla#566Form of Michael, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Jordyn#371Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #136 in 2015, #371 in 2025

For a brother

• Caleb#58possibly “dog”^*
• Kaleb#295“dog”^*
• Isaiah#57Editor’s note Down from #49 in 2015 to #57 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 320 US boys in the 2025 records
• Issac#915Variant of Isaac, meaning “he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Ethan#24“firmness, strong, or long-lived”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, Scandinavian & Norse, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Annika’s. Rank is US 2025.