Ankica
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ankica is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and English, written in the Latin script.
- HRCroatia1 in 298◐
- RSSerbia1 in 2.9K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 73 ●
- 1 in 298 ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
35K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Анкица in MK North Macedonia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 26 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 | #77 | 14,193 | 33K rec. | 1 in 298 | 14K | Ankica | 61 |
| RS Serbia | #314 | 1,103 | 519 rec. | — | — | Ankica | 35 |
| MK North Macedonia | #525 | 691△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 691 | Анкица | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | #777 | 300△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 7K | 301 | Ankica | 2 |
| US United States | — | 218 | 863 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 218 | Ankica | 73 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #415 | 169 | 7 rec. | — | — | Ankica | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 162△ | 64 rec. | 1 in 63K | 162 | Ankica | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 58 | 48 rec. | — | — | Ankica | 11 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 50 | 0 rec. | — | — | Ankica | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 31 | 27 rec. | — | — | Ankica | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 30 | 26 rec. | — | — | Ankica | 13 |
| XK Kosovo | — | 23 | 7 rec. | — | 80 | Ankica | 2 |
Roughly 14K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 298). 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●
- Croatian90K96%
- English1.2K1%
- German1.2K1%
- Hungarian6291%
- French1811%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 90,057 | 96% |
| English | 1,228 | 1% |
| German | 1,220 | 1% |
| Hungarian | 629 | 1% |
| French | 181 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 138 |
| 2000 | 141 |
| 2001 | 141 |
| 2002 | 139 |
| 2003 | 141 |
| 2004 | 140 |
| 2005 | 142 |
| 2006 | 144 |
| 2007 | 144 |
| 2008 | 147 |
| 2009 | 145 |
| 2010 | 144 |
| 2011 | 142 |
| 2012 | 141 |
| 2013 | 143 |
| 2014 | 145 |
| 2015 | 145 |
| 2016 | 147 |
| 2017 | 148 |
| 2018 | 149 |
| 2019 | 147 |
| 2020 | 147 |
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●
- Ankica Lepejb. 1948HRprominent whistleblower from Croatia, that uncovered financial info of Tuđman familly (1948–2022)
- Ankica Jurić TilićHRCroatian film producer
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 22 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 14K | #69 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 322 | #326 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 320 | #342 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 319 | #338 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 319 | #337 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 318 | #349 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 316 | #334 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 313 | #366 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 313 | #355 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 312 | #360 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 311 | #375 |
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 · 102 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ankica?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Ankica (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ankica have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Ankica in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ankica.
- Where is Ankica most common?
- Ankica is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 298 people carrying it.
- How common is Ankica compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Ankica is the 77th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Ankica a male or female name?
- Ankica 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ankicaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Ankica” — the 77th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.