# Anika (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anika/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,804 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 16,804 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,094, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 510 | 570 |
| 2012 | 501 | 583 |
| 2013 | 522 | 560 |
| 2014 | 593 | 520 |
| 2015 | 523 | 581 |
| 2016 | 520 | 589 |
| 2017 | 503 | 599 |
| 2018 | 405 | 712 |
| 2019 | 420 | 691 |
| 2020 | 361 | 753 |
| 2021 | 325 | 848 |
| 2022 | 339 | 827 |
| 2023 | 287 | 923 |
| 2024 | 314 | 860 |
| 2025 | 269 | 955 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 76 | 545 |
| 2012 | 83 | 516 |
| 2013 | 102 | 415 |
| 2014 | 97 | 448 |
| 2015 | 68 | 609 |
| 2016 | 93 | 468 |
| 2017 | 106 | 413 |
| 2018 | 60 | 670 |
| 2019 | 57 | 682 |
| 2020 | 41 | 872 |
| 2021 | 63 | 616 |
| 2022 | 49 | 746 |
| 2023 | 51 | 706 |
| 2024 | 42 | 869 |
| 2025 | 40 | 872 |

## People named Anika

- Anika Noni Rose, American actress
- Anika Moa, artist
- Jerlin Anika, badminton player
- Anika Kabir Shokh, Bangladeshi actress
- Cori Bush, American politician, nurse, and activist (born 1976)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.