Meaning not yet researched.
Anika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 269 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 2004; #955 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#955 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #479.
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Anika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 269 girls in 2025. Peak: #479 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 642 (2006).
In 2025, 269 US girls were named Anika, making it the 955th most common girls’ name of the year, down 95 places from #860 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 314 girls named Anika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #479, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 642, in 2006. For comparison, it was #581 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anika in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 16,804 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,591 babies named Anika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,743 US girls were named Anika; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 520. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,975 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anika ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #391 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Annika (19,594 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anike and Anakah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anike (20), Anakah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anika in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 18 | #391 | #210 |
| Oregon | 7 | #490 | #470 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #619 | #679 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #625 | #268 |
| California | 48 | #644 | #466 |
| Virginia | 9 | #764 | #436 |
| Ohio | 11 | #810 | #541 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #841 | #639 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #847 | #406 |
| New York | 18 | #862 | #617 |
| Colorado | 5 | #920 | #697 |
| Illinois | 9 | #934 | #539 |
| Texas | 30 | #951 | #714 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,229 | #727 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,707 | #1,123 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #955 | — | — |
| 2024 | 314 | #860 | — | — |
| 2023 | 287 | #923 | — | — |
| 2022 | 339 | #827 | — | — |
| 2021 | 325 | #848 | — | — |
| 2020 | 361 | #753 | — | — |
| 2019 | 420 | #691 | — | — |
| 2018 | 405 | #712 | — | — |
| 2017 | 503 | #599 | — | — |
| 2016 | 520 | #589 | — | — |
| 2015 | 523 | #581 | — | — |
| 2014 | 593 | #520 | — | — |
| 2013 | 522 | #560 | — | — |
| 2012 | 501 | #583 | — | — |
| 2011 | 510 | #570 | — | — |
| 2010 | 541 | #541 | — | — |
| 2009 | 565 | #534 | — | — |
| 2008 | 535 | #577 | — | — |
| 2007 | 614 | #515 | — | — |
| 2006 | 642 | #485 | — | — |
| 2005 | 613 | #496 | — | — |
| 2004 | 615 | #479 | — | — |
| 2003 | 612 | #481 | — | — |
| 2002 | 538 | #509 | — | — |
| 2001 | 455 | #567 | — | — |
| 2000 | 402 | #624 | — | — |
| 1999 | 303 | #739 | — | — |
| 1998 | 299 | #729 | — | — |
| 1997 | 278 | #759 | — | — |
| 1996 | 251 | #810 | — | — |
| 1995 | 205 | #919 | — | — |
| 1994 | 152 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1992 | 199 | #963 | — | — |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1985 | 105 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1982 | 89 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1981 | 103 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1977 | 135 | #999 | — | — |
| 1976 | 147 | #897 | — | — |
| 1975 | 157 | #849 | — | — |
| 1974 | 158 | #835 | — | — |
| 1973 | 134 | #917 | — | — |
| 1972 | 161 | #823 | — | — |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,435 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,055 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,576 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,605 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).