Anica
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ǎnit͡sa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 290(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2K
- DEGermany≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anica itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 290 (inferred from the name graph)
14,578 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Аница in MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom ., slowenische, kroatische, bulgarische, makedonische Kose form von
Sources 2
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anica counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #63 | 14,578 | 1 in 290 | 15K | Anica | 54 |
| SI Slovenia | #277 | 5,856 | 1 in 359 | 5.9K | Anica | 19 |
| RS Serbia | #217 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Anica | 35 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Anica | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Anica | 105 |
| MK North Macedonia | #432 | 1,217as Аница | 1 in 1.7K | 1.2K | Аница | 10 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #516 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Anica | 17 |
14,578 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; the de-munich-vornamen register; State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anica Černejb. 1900SISlovenian writer (1900-1944)
- Anica Tavčar Gartnerb. 1905SISlovenian farmer, writer and poet
- Anica Cevcb. 1926SISlovene art historian (1926-2011)
- Anica Kargovska-Klisarovab. 1933MKMacedonian university teacher and anatomist
- Anica Nazorb. 1935HRCroatian philologist
- Anica Kumerb. 1945SISlovenian actress
- Anica Matzka-Dojderb. 1953ATAustrian politician
- Anica Dobrab. 1963RSSerbian actress
- Anica Netob. 1972AOAngolan handball player
- Anica Röhlingerb. 1996DEGerman actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15K | #67 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 11K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 5.9K | #35 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 5.8K | #80 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2025 | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Anica a male or female name?
- Anica 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.
- How do you pronounce Anica?
- A machine transcription gives /ǎnit͡sa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What are other forms of the name Anica?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; Ankica is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Jana.
- In which country does Anica have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Anica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anica.
- Where is Anica most common?
- Anica is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 290 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Anica?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 14,578 people named Anica in 2021, about 1 in 290 residents.
- How common is Anica compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Anica is the 63rd most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anicaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Anica” — the 63rd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.