Annika
Annika was given to 254 girls in 2025, #995 among girls’ names; 19,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,400 Americans named Annika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Annika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Annika is “a female given name from Swedish [in turn from Hebrew], a Swedish diminutive form of Anna.”
Borrowed from Swedish Annika.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Annika?
#995 among girls’ names, 2025
Annika fell from #566 in 2015 to #995 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.30 to 0.16 per 1,000.
1,089 babies in 2003, the peak
Annika peaked in 2003, when 1,089 girls were given it, #285 among girls’ names. The 254 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 254 | #995 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 271 | #963 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 272 | #957 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 336 | #835 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 322 | #852 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 329 | #830 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 345 | #802 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 393 | #722 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 407 | #707 | 0.24 |
| 2016 | 455 | #645 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 543 | #566 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 534 | #572 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 569 | #525 | 0.32 |
| 2012 | 573 | #528 | 0.33 |
| 2011 | 580 | #507 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 649 | #466 | 0.37 |
| 2009 | 767 | #418 | 0.42 |
| 2008 | 807 | #398 | 0.43 |
| 2007 | 873 | #376 | 0.45 |
| 2006 | 987 | #334 | 0.52 |
| 2005 | 979 | #327 | 0.53 |
| 2004 | 971 | #326 | 0.53 |
| 2003 | 1,089 | #285 | 0.60 |
| 2002 | 858 | #346 | 0.48 |
| 2001 | 821 | #364 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 634 | #446 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 558 | #471 | 0.31 |
| 1998 | 544 | #473 | 0.31 |
| 1997 | 501 | #492 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 334 | #665 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 194 | #968 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 144 | #1,214 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,359 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,439 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 121 | #1,348 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,574 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,336 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,426 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,458 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,515 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,523 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,415 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,716 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,025 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,617 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,806 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,747 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,189 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,878 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,175 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,065 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,960 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,783 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,615 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,507 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,870 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Annika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annika, and how old are they?
19,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 19,594 Americans ever recorded as Annika. The median Annika alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 18,174 people named Annika (18,153 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 473 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,000 |
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 Annika born?
The states with the most babies named Annika are California, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #834 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 18 | #306 | 4.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #649 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,722 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 11 | #502 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,251 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #886 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 9 | #686 | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 9 | #792 | 1.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,540 | 0.6× |
Where Annika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Annika is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1961 it was given 4.0 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 Annika 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 42,393 babies since 1880, Annika is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 254 of their 545 babies (47%), the second 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 Annika
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 Annika and names like it
- Compare Annika and AnikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnnika peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annika since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Annika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Annika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Annika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.