Anika

given name · English · Latin script

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

Anika is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a son of Savarna Manu (P); a type of Devas.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 779◐
  • ATAustria1 in 2.1K
  • DEGermany1 in 3.3K

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

≈109K ●

across 14 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
316 ●

99K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 235 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

AnikaLatin · English●232K records
อินกาThai · Thai●186 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Annika in SE Sweden, FI Finland.

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●

a son of Savarna Manu (P); a type of Devas

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Anika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#82364,8643.3K rec.—listedAnika69
SE Sweden—39,431△186 rec.1 in 25939KAnnika23
DE Germany#46836,69033K rec.—1Anika175
FI Finland—23,663△34 rec.1 in 23525KAnnika5
US United States—18,15340K rec.1 in 18K18KAnika316
HR Croatia—14,578—1 in 29015K——
IN India—13,8955.7K rec.—419Anika97
AT Austria#3067,876363 rec.—4.3KAnika51
SI Slovenia—5,856△9 rec.1 in 3595.9K—5
AU Australia—4,9544K rec.—7Anika130
CA Canada—4,1891.1K rec.—23Anika91
DK Denmark—3,3200 rec.1 in 1.8K3.3K—1

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

Languages●

  • English232K44%
  • Bangla185K35%
  • German49K9%
  • Hindi15K3%
  • Polish5.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English231,91944%
Bangla184,72635%
German49,3559%
Hindi15,2623%
Polish5,6331%

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◐

Anika is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name11K records spelled Anika87 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Аничка, Аника, Аніка, Annika, Ანიჩკა

  • a separate given name4.0K records spelled Anika3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Anikã, Anīkā

  • Danish given name3.9K records spelled Anika8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Aníka

  • Hungarian given name3.7K records spelled Anika6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, United States, India

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Anikà, Änikä, Aníka

  • Indonesian given name2.9K records spelled Anika3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, India, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ańįķą

48 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.

Other recorded senses●

Anika is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Goodness

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Russian, 26 avril (9 mai), 30 août (12 septembre), 3 (16) septembre, 4 (17) novembre. Joannice est son équivalent français. Fête : 4 novembre.

    as a nameRussian Names

  • Goodness has come.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • Pretty; elegant.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Russian, dim of Anik.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015019201940196019802000129 · 1993

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Anika in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1915–2015
Yearrecords
19151
19181
19221
19233
19261
19311
19331
19341
19354
19362
19372
19383
19392
19401
19411
19424
19432
19444
19452
19462
19475
19485
19492
19504
19515
19527
19534
19543
19555
19569
19577
19586
19599
19608
19618
19628
19638
19648
196511
19669
196713
196810
196912
197013
197114
197219
197321
197419
197518
197626
197722
197832
197922
198024
198142
198240
198345
198467
198569
198670
198766
198879
198974
199089
1991106
1992108
1993129
199495
199568
199660
199768
199843
19998
20089
20104
20123
20131
20147
201511

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1915–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Anika Noni Rose, b. 1972Anika Larsen, b. 1973Anika Mauer, b. 1974Anika Decker, b. 1975Anika Vavić, b. 1975Cori Bush, b. 1976Anika Moa, b. 1980Anika Todd, b. 1990Anika Kabir Shokh, b. 1993

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 92 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Anika
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,886
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242.4K#120
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#459
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.2K#459
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—720#2,541
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—706#922
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—658#508
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025634#263
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—598#530
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—516#2,456
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—380#710
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021307—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 738 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anika?
We estimate roughly 109 thousand people bear Anika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Anika have the most bearers?
Anika is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled anika.
Where is Anika most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anika is densest in Finland — about 1 in 235 people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
How common is Anika compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Anika is the 82nd most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Anika a male or female name?
Anika 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.
What does the name Anika mean?
Recorded meaning: a son of Savarna Manu (P); a type of Devas
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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, “Anika” — the 82nd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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