Anika
Anika reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 484, and has been recorded 16,804 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 955th. About 17,000 Anikas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Anika
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,804
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 484th
- Rank in 2025
- 955th
- First recorded
- 1961
How old the living Anikas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,804 babies given the name since 1961, about 17,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Anikas
- Anika Noni Rose (born 1972)American actress
People named Anika with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anika is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anika is most concentrated in Washington (2.8×), Minnesota (2.3×), Oregon (2.2×), California (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Anika peaked:
Anika elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Anika | 2,094 | 413th |
| Switzerland girls | Anika | 504 | 248th |
| Poland girls | Anika | 469 birth registrations | 192nd |
| France girls | Anika | 265 | 1,817th |
| Belgium girls | Anika | 101 | 660th |
| Scotland girls | Anika | 49 | 496th |
| New Zealand girls | Anika | 46 | 93rd |
| Ireland girls | Anika | 37 | 544th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Anika | 3 | 397th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Anika: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Anika | 466 | 0.037% | 194th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Anika | 29 | 0.007% | 398th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Anika | 8 | 0.012% | 106th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Anika | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Anika is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.05% of children were given it – 159 of them.
Anika: rank by region
In 2018, Anika was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Anika | 252 | 6 |
In 2025, Anika was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Anika | 326 | 2 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Anika appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (252nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Anika by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 23 | 345th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Anika among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Anika | 64 | 122 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Anika against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.