Aanika
Aanika was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,208 among girls’ names; 369 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aanika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aanika?
#13,208 among girls’ names, 2025
Aanika fell from #5,458 in 2015 to #13,208 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 3.7 per million.
24 babies in 2015, the peak
Aanika peaked in 2015, when 24 girls were given it, #5,458 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,208 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,591 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,193 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,676 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,974 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,965 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,697 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,245 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,458 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,134 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,902 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,972 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,089 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,866 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,595 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,479 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aanika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aanika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aanika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aanika, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Aanika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Aanika (336 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Aanika?
Aanika is a less common spelling of Annika: SSA has recorded 369 Aanika and 19,594 Annika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,334 babies since 1880, Aanika is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 551 babies (1.1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aanika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aanika and names like it
- Compare Aanika and AnnikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAanika peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aanika since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Aanika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aanika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.