Anika Girl
How popular is Anika?
#955 girl name in 2025
269 baby girls were named Anika in the US in 2025, making it the 955th most popular girl name.
Anika popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #955 for girls (▼ 95 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 269 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-49% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #581 in 2015, #753 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (642 girls) |
| Highest rank | #479 in 2004 |
| First recorded | 1961 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Anika counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Anika family of names ranked #538 for girls in 2025 (#480 the year before), with 539 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Anika is most popular
Babies named Anika per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Washington: 0.7 per 1,000 (98 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.5 per 1,000 (87 girls)
- Oregon: 0.3 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- California: 0.3 per 1,000 (271 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.3 per 1,000 (37 girls)
Anika by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 26 | #4,417 |
| 1970s | 1,222 | #823 |
| 1980s | 949 | #1,212 |
| 1990s | 2,083 | #729 |
| 2000s | 5,591 | #479 |
| 2010s | 5,038 | #520 |
| 2020s | 1,895 | #753 |
Girl names about as popular as Anika
Questions
- Is Anika a boy or girl name?
- Anika is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Anika were girls.
- How popular is the name Anika?
- 269 baby girls were named Anika in the US in 2025, making it the 955th most popular girl name.
- When was Anika most popular?
- Anika peaked in 2006, when 642 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #479 in 2004.
- How many people are named Anika?
- 16,804 babies have been named Anika in the US since 1880. We estimate about 16,593 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 19.
- Where is Anika most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Anika was most common in Washington, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.