Anika — #863 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Anika

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,529 babies named Anika between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anika currently holds the #863 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 642 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anika performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,591 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Anika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,824 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Anika in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anika in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,529 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.