Anica

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anica is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 290◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 359
  • RSSerbia1 in 1.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈24K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
184 ●

54K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 290 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

AnicaLatin · Croatian●96K records
АницаCyrillic · Macedonian●1.2K records

Locally spelled Аница in MK North Macedonia, BG Bulgaria and Aniça in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

weibl. Vom ., slowenische, kroatische, bulgarische, makedonische Kose­ form von

Sources 2

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#7114,57840K rec.1 in 29015KAnica55
SI Slovenia#795,856△84 rec.1 in 3595.9KAnica18
DE Germany—3,6573.4K rec.—listedAnica102
RS Serbia#2091,923845 rec.—listedAnica36
US United States—1,2716.4K rec.1 in 262K1.3KAnica184
MK North Macedonia#2861,217△15 rec.1 in 1.7K1.2KАница9
AU Australia—856761 rec.—1Anica51
AT Austria—544174 rec.—92Anica28
PH Philippines—438214 rec.——Anica18
CA Canada—320220 rec.—1Anica28
GB United Kingdom—309312 rec.—listedAnica39
ES Spain—244△93 rec.1 in 205K275Anica13

Roughly 15K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 290). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian96K72%
  • Hungarian13K10%
  • English7.3K6%
  • German4.4K3%
  • Spanish3.3K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian96,21772%
Hungarian12,78410%
English7,3196%
German4,3863%
Spanish3,3062%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anica is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name11K records spelled Anica8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Romania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written Ânica, Anicá, Aniça, Ánica, Ãnica

  • Italian given name177 records spelled Anica2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Serbia, Philippines

    Also written Änïcä

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020304019701980199020002010202039 · 2001

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Anica in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19706
19726
19739
197414
197534
197618
197724
197823
197931
198025
198132
198220
198322
198413
198514
198613
198719
198813
198916
199023
199116
199215
199316
199424
199518
199620
199722
199812
199924
200027
200139
200235
200335
200430
200524
200632
200739
200831
200924
201031
201125
201216
201315
201424
201521
201615
20177
201812
201914
202015
20218
202211
202314
202411
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Anica Černej, b. 1900Anica Tavčar Gartner, b. 1905Anica Cevc, b. 1926Anica Kargovska-Klisarova, b. 1933Anica Nazor, b. 1935Anica Kumer, b. 1945Anica Matzka-Dojder, b. 1953Anica Dobra, b. 1963Anica Neto, b. 1972Anica Röhlinger, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 59 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Anica
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202115K#67
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202111K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20255.9K#35
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—5.8K#80
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,473
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—275#3,227
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—244#7,760
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—216#4,952
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010173#103,655
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020170—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020160#115,686
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022146—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 331 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anica?
We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Anica (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Anica have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Anica in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anica.
Where is Anica most common?
Anica is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 290 people carrying it.
How common is Anica compared with other names?
In Croatia, Anica is the 71st most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Anica a male or female name?
Anica is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anica” — the 71st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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