Anika
Anika was given to 269 girls in 2025, #955 among girls’ names; 16,804 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,600 Americans named Anika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anika mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Anika is “a female given name, variant of Annika”
[ˈaniˌka]
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anika?
#955 among girls’ names, 2025
Anika fell from #581 in 2015 to #955 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.29 to 0.17 per 1,000.
642 babies in 2006, the peak
Anika peaked in 2006, when 642 girls were given it, #485 among girls’ names. The 269 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #955 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 314 | #860 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 287 | #923 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 339 | #827 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 325 | #848 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 361 | #753 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 420 | #691 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 405 | #712 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 503 | #599 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 520 | #589 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 523 | #581 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 593 | #520 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 522 | #560 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 501 | #583 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 510 | #570 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 541 | #541 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 565 | #534 | 0.31 |
| 2008 | 535 | #577 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 614 | #515 | 0.32 |
| 2006 | 642 | #485 | 0.34 |
| 2005 | 613 | #496 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 615 | #479 | 0.33 |
| 2003 | 612 | #481 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 538 | #509 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 455 | #567 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 402 | #624 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 303 | #738 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 299 | #729 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 278 | #759 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 251 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 205 | #916 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 152 | #1,163 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,226 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 199 | #961 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,171 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,464 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,561 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,564 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,372 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,314 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 105 | #1,276 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,476 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,212 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 89 | #1,374 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 103 | #1,253 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,329 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,161 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 135 | #999 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 147 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 157 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 158 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 134 | #917 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 161 | #823 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,336 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,434 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,604 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anika, and how old are they?
16,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,804 Americans ever recorded as Anika. The median Anika alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 15,176 people named Anika (15,152 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,350 |
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 Anika born?
The states with the most babies named Anika are California, Texas and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 48 | #644 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 30 | #951 | 0.7× |
| New York | 18 | #862 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 18 | #391 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #619 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #625 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 11 | #810 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #841 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 9 | #934 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 9 | #764 | 1.0× |
Where Anika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anika is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1961 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Anika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,219 babies since 1880, Anika is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 269 of their 550 babies (49%), the 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 Anika
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 Anika and names like it
- Compare Anika and AnnikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnika peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anika since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Anika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Anika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.