Anika

Where Anika comes from

Anika hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #6,567 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Anika Noni Rose born
    American actress
  3. 1980
    Anika Moa born
    artist
  4. 2004
    Peak, #479
    615 babies named Anika — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #923.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Anika Noni Rose · American actress, born 1972
  • Anika Moa · artist, born 1980
  • Anika Kabir Shokh · Bangladeshi actress, born 1993
  • Anika Niederwieser · Italian handball player, born 1992
  • Anika Smit · South African high jumper, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.