Anika

Meaning: Grace; favor
Origin: Variant of Annika (from Hebrew)

Girl's name · #955 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Anika's best rank, #479, came in 2004; it has settled back to #955 today. Roughly 17,000 girls have been named Anika since 1961.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 22 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#104 in Slovenia (2025) · #207 in Austria (2025) · #359 in New Zealand (2025) · #506 in Poland (2025) · #551 in Ireland (2025) · #584 in Switzerland (2025) · #809 in Scotland (2025) · #876 in England & Wales (2025) · #885 in Sweden (2025) · #907 in Netherlands (2025) · #409 in Canada (2024).

Famous Anikas

Anika Noni Rose — American actress
Anika Moa — New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1980)
Anika Kabir Shokh — Bangladeshi actress
Anika Niederwieser — Italian handball player
Anika Smit — South African high jumper

In stories & tradition

Anika — Legends of Anika (book)

What Anikas become

Among 320 notable people named Anika:

Scientists & scholars appear 1.78× more often than among typical names — e.g. Anika Chebrolu, Indian American child scientist.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Annika (#995), Anika would rank around #573 with about 520 births last year — the newborns split about 51/49 between Anika and Annika.

Similar names: Giovanna · Aniya · Danica · Jolie · America · Ayanna

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