Anika
#955 for girls in 2025, 269 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 615 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,804since 1961
Anika over time
Rank among girls' names. Anika has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #955 | 269 |
| 2024 | #860 | 314 |
| 2023 | #923 | 287 |
| 2022 | #827 | 339 |
| 2021 | #847 | 325 |
| 2020 | #753 | 361 |
| 2019 | #691 | 420 |
| 2018 | #712 | 405 |
| 2017 | #599 | 503 |
| 2016 | #589 | 520 |
| 2015 | #581 | 523 |
| 2014 | #520 | 593 |
| 2013 | #560 | 522 |
| 2012 | #583 | 501 |
| 2011 | #570 | 510 |
| 2010 | #541 | 541 |
| 2009 | #534 | 565 |
| 2008 | #576 | 535 |
| 2007 | #515 | 614 |
| 2006 | #484 | 642 |
| 2005 | #496 | 613 |
| 2004 | #479 | 615 |
| 2003 | #481 | 612 |
| 2002 | #509 | 538 |
| 2001 | #567 | 455 |
| 2000 | #624 | 402 |
| 1999 | #739 | 303 |
| 1998 | #729 | 299 |
| 1997 | #759 | 278 |
| 1996 | #810 | 251 |
| 1995 | #919 | 205 |
| 1994 | #1,166 | 152 |
| 1993 | #1,228 | 141 |
| 1992 | #963 | 199 |
| 1991 | #1,173 | 149 |
| 1990 | #1,468 | 106 |
| 1989 | #1,564 | 90 |
| 1988 | #1,564 | 84 |
| 1987 | #1,371 | 99 |
| 1986 | #1,314 | 101 |
| 1985 | #1,276 | 105 |
| 1984 | #1,475 | 78 |
| 1983 | #1,212 | 105 |
| 1982 | #1,374 | 89 |
| 1981 | #1,253 | 103 |
| 1980 | #1,328 | 95 |
| 1979 | #1,161 | 114 |
| 1978 | #1,087 | 120 |
| 1977 | #999 | 135 |
| 1976 | #897 | 147 |
| 1975 | #849 | 157 |
| 1974 | #834 | 158 |
| 1973 | #917 | 134 |
| 1972 | #823 | 161 |
| 1971 | #1,336 | 80 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anika! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anika is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#466 · 1 in 4,498
- California#1,160 · 1 in 11,951
- New York#1,202 · 1 in 12,429
- Texas#1,281 · 1 in 14,319
Best ever in a state: #124 in New Hampshire, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #466 | 6 | 1 in 4,498 |
| California | #1,160 | 18 | 1 in 11,951 |
| New York | #1,202 | 9 | 1 in 12,429 |
| Texas | #1,281 | 9 | 1 in 14,319 |
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See more about Anika
- 95 spots since 2024 (#860 → #955)
- 202 spots since 2020 (#753 → #955)
- 374 spots since 2015 (#581 → #955)
- Biggest jump: 513 spots in 1972 (#1,336 → #823)
- Biggest drop: 265 spots in 1993 (#963 → #1,228)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2004 at #479 (615 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1995–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,961 girls born in 2006 were named Anika (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,975 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #479 in 2004, was only 1 in 2,986 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.3% of all girls named Anika (5,591) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 26 | #4,418 (1969) | #6,135 |
| 1970s | 1,222 | #823 (1972) | #1,262 |
| 1980s | 949 | #1,212 (1983) | #1,373 |
| 1990s | 2,083 | #729 (1998) | #995 |
| 2000s | 5,591 | #479 (2004) | #527 |
| 2010s | 5,038 | #520 (2014) | #595 |
| 2020s | 1,895 | #753 (2020) | #861 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anika in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 17,562 of them was named Anika, which outranked 89.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,363Raina100
- #1,363Rosie100
- #1,363Shanon100
- #1,371Anika99
- #1,371Aida99
- #1,371Alix99
- #1,371Dallas99
- #1,381Calli98
- #1,381Cinthia98
- #1,381Corie98
Tied with 9 names at #1,371; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.