Anikka
Anikka was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 260 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anikka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anikka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,507, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1998, the peak
Anikka peaked in 1998, when 15 girls were given it, #6,388 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,507 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,302 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,939 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,923 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,210 | 5.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,350 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,268 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,838 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,532 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,059 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 9 | #11,516 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,922 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,297 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,554 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,319 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,763 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,193 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,477 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,388 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,196 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,674 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,876 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,628 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,865 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,081 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,731 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,897 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,782 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,755 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,589 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,169 | 3.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,726 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anikka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anikka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anikka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anikka, and how old are they?
An estimated 256 Americans named Anikka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 271 people named Anikka (267 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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 Anikka?
Anikka is a less common spelling of Annika: SSA has recorded 260 Anikka and 19,594 Annika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,204 babies since 1880, Anikka is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 545 babies recorded by SSA was a Anikka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Anikka
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 Anikka and names like it
- Compare Anikka and AnnikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAnikka peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Anikka.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anikka alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.