Anka
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anka is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Ana, equivalent to English Annie.
- HRCroatia1 in 245◐
- RSSerbia1 in 2.1K
- SISlovenia1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 245 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
80K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Анька in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Анка in MK North Macedonia, UA Ukraine.
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 diminutive of the female given name Ana, equivalent to English Annie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #41 | 17,231 | 62K rec. | 1 in 245 | 17K | Anka | 47 |
| BG Bulgaria | #203 | 7,499 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Anka | 46 |
| DE Germany | — | 4,711 | 4.5K rec. | — | 1 | Anka | 112 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,470 | 955 rec. | — | listed | Анька | 51 |
| RS Serbia | #253 | 1,519 | 694 rec. | — | listed | Anka | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | #406 | 872△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 872 | Anka | 17 |
| MK North Macedonia | #490 | 761△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 761 | Анка | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 557 | 279 rec. | — | — | Anka | 29 |
| US United States | — | 439 | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 758K | 439 | Anka | 98 |
| AU Australia | — | 427 | 480 rec. | — | 1 | Anka | 40 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 285 | 267 rec. | — | listed | Anka | 43 |
| AT Austria | — | 218 | 125 rec. | — | 12 | Anka | 26 |
Roughly 17K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 245). 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●
- Croatian125K80%
- German5.3K3%
- English4.3K3%
- Bulgarian4.3K3%
- Hindi4.1K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 125,258 | 80% |
| German | 5,292 | 3% |
| English | 4,344 | 3% |
| Bulgarian | 4,265 | 3% |
| Hindi | 4,118 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Anka 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.
In French, Diminutif slave d’Anna; variante liée à Anne, donc « grâce ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., niederdeutsche oder pol nische (auch bulgarische, slowenische) Kose form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, dim of Anna.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, rope used to fasten a sail to a mast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kea, hip (upper part of the leg)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 128 |
| 2000 | 124 |
| 2001 | 120 |
| 2002 | 113 |
| 2003 | 109 |
| 2004 | 108 |
| 2005 | 108 |
| 2006 | 107 |
| 2007 | 109 |
| 2008 | 106 |
| 2009 | 103 |
| 2010 | 103 |
| 2011 | 102 |
| 2012 | 100 |
| 2013 | 97 |
| 2014 | 96 |
| 2015 | 96 |
| 2016 | 88 |
| 2017 | 86 |
| 2018 | 83 |
| 2019 | 83 |
| 2020 | 81 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Anka Obrenovićb. 1821RSMember of the House of Obrenovic
- Anka Krizmanićb. 1896HRCroatian painter (1896–1987)
- Anka Bergmanb. 1917GBCzech Holocaust survivor
- Anka Muhlsteinb. 1935FRFrench historian and writer
- Anka Khristolovab. 1955BGBulgarian former volleyball player
- Anka Bakovab. 1957BGBulgarian rower
- Anka Georgievab. 1959BGBulgarian rower
- Anka Mrak Taritašb. 1959HRCroatian politician
- Anka Schmidb. 1961CHSwiss screenwriter (born 1961)
- Anka Feldhusenb. 1966DEGerman diplomat
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 52 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 17K | #47 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 985 | #184 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 971 | #185 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 964 | #186 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 959 | #191 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 953 | #195 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 872 | #222 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 861 | #435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 439 | #21,612 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 274 | #14,249 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 212 | #3,465 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 279 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anka?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Anka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anka have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Anka in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anka.
- Where is Anka most common?
- Anka is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 245 people carrying it.
- How common is Anka compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Anka is the 41st most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Anka a male or female name?
- Anka 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 Anka mean?
- Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Ana, equivalent to English Annie
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About this data
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, “Anka” — the 41st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.