Annika is a variant of Anika. It was originally a diminutive of Anna, which goes back to the Hebrew Channah meaning ‘favour, grace’. Annika is particularly popular in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Annika is a first name for girls.
The name Annika 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, Annika ranks 609. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Annika. In the entire USA, approximately 16,454 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Annika. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Annika is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Annika cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #271 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2003. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Annika, 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, Annika 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 Annika was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
333 babies were named Annika in 2022 - that's 1 in 445,141 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Annika ranked 765 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 six letters, the name Annika is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
If your name is Annika 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Annika, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Nut
Igloo
Koala
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Annika
Annika
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
N
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K
A
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.
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K
A
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. Annika sounds like this:
