first name
ANIKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 15,176 people named Anika, 36.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 32.4% as White and 15.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Anika peaked in 2006, when 642 babies got the name.
At least 16,804 babies have been given the name since 1961. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Anika by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #988. The largest share of babies named Anika, 47.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Anika is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anika has been most common in Washington (2.8×), Minnesota (2.3×), and Oregon (2.2×), and least common in South Carolina (0.16×).
13,971 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anika, most common first.
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