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The first name 
Anika

Anika is a first name for girls.

Anika is a common name for girls!

The name Anika isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Anika ranks 592. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Anika. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anika.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Anika

What does the name 
Anika mean?

The name Anika was originally a diminutive of Anna, which goes back to the Hebrew Channah meaning ‘favour, grace’. Anika is particularly popular in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The name Anika is... also a variant of the Hindi name Anik, that means 'army' or 'splendour'. Therefore, the name is known in India, too.

Anika -
keeping with the times

Anika is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Anika cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #450 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2003. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Anika, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Anika seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Anika was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Anika in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

339 babies were named Anika in 2022 - that's 1 in 437,262 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Anika ranked 748 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Anika has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With five letters, the name Anika is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, n, i, k and a

If you take all the letters in the name Anika – A, n, i, k and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Akina or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Anika

If your name is Anika and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Anika

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anika, you can simply say:

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Koala

Apple

This is how the name Anika is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Anika in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Anika

Anika

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Anika

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Anika is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
N
I
K
A

Have you ever waved the name Anika

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
N
I
K
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anika sounds like this: