Anica
Anica was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,129 among girls’ names; 1,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Anica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anica?
#15,129 among girls’ names, 2025
Anica fell from #6,044 in 2015 to #15,129 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 3.1 per million.
39 babies in 2001, the peak
Anica peaked in 2001, when 39 girls were given it, #3,415 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,129 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,988 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,674 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,111 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,225 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,243 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,764 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,660 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,834 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,632 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,044 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,483 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,778 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,484 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,372 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,619 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,723 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,772 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,991 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,473 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,278 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,502 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,873 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,731 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,415 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,406 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,585 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,567 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,667 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,887 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,229 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,245 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,684 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,024 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,672 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,239 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,298 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,908 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,290 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,468 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,092 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,228 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,556 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,898 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,778 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,323 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,797 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,288 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,180 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,683 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,359 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,233 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,594 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,315 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,103 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anica, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,102 Americans ever recorded as Anica. The median Anica alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,271 people named Anica (1,271 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 286 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 441 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 171 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Anica born?
The states with the most babies named Anica are California, Texas and Michigan, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 123 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Anica?
Anica is a less common spelling of Annika: SSA has recorded 1,102 Anica and 19,594 Annika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,235 babies since 1880, Anica is the fourth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 538 babies (<1%), the third 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 Anica
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 Anica and names like it
- Compare Anica and AnnikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnica peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anica since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Anica.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anica alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.