Anika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a son of Savarna Manu (P); a type of Devas
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.6K
- USUnited States1 in 18Kas Annika
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 Anika 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Annika in SE Sweden, FI Finland.
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)
a son of Savarna Manu (P); a type of Devas
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #227 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Anika | 71 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39,431as Annika | 1 in 259 | 39K | Annika | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 23,663as Annika | 1 in 235 | 25K | Annika | 4 |
| DE Germany | #472 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Anika | 184 |
| US United States | — | 18,174as Annika | 1 in 18K | 18K | Anika | 357 |
| HR Croatia | — | 14,578as Anica | 1 in 290 | 15K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 5,856as Anica | 1 in 359 | 5.9K | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,182 | 1 in 32K | 1.2K | Anika | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anika is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Goodness
as a nameThe book of African names
In Russian, 26 avril (9 mai), 30 août (12 septembre), 3 (16) septembre, 4 (17) novembre. Joannice est son équivalent français. Fête : 4 novembre.
as a nameRussian Names
Goodness has come.
as a nameThe African book of names
Pretty; elegant.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Russian, dim of Anik.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anika Noni Roseb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Anika Larsenb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Anika Mauerb. 1974DEGerman actress
- Anika Deckerb. 1975DEGerman screenwriter
- Anika Vavićb. 1975RSSerbian pianist
- Cori Bushb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician, nurse, and activist (born 1976)
- Anika Moab. 1980NZartist
- Anika Toddb. 1990CACanadian cyclist
- Anika Kabir Shokhb. 1993BDBangladeshi actress
- Anika GaujaAUresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-6691-9421
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(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,886 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #459 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.2K | #459 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 658 | #508 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 634 | #263 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 307 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 291 | #4,005 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 269 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 237 | #1,597 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 220 | #1,093 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 188 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 121 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Anika mean, and where does it come from?
- a son of Savarna Manu (P); a type of Devas Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Anika a male or female name?
- Anika 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.
- What are other forms of the name Anika?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Anita and Annette are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Anna.
- How common is the name Anika?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,182 people named Anika in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Anika compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Anika is the 227th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Anika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Anika in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anika.
What do you want to know about Anika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anikaThe 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, “Anika” — the 227th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.