Anika

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Anika: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Anika: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #93 in 2008, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#93highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#506
1997	#527
1998	#403
1999	#483
2000	#527
2001	#466
2002	#398
2003	#467
2004	#463
2005	#506
2006	#484
2007	#479
2008	#557
2009	#447
2010	#468
2011	#545
2012	#516
2013	#415
2014	#448
2015	#609
2016	#468
2017	#413
2018	#670
2019	#682
2020	#872
2021	#616
2022	#746
2023	#706
2024	#869

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #706 among girls in England and Wales, #727 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #506 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Anika appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,054 births with the name.

Anika across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Anika's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#506 (1996)	#398 (2002)	#869 (2024)	29 of 29	2,054 (1996–2024)	106 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#544 (2025)	#544 (2025)	9 of 24	37 (2002–2025)	6 (2025)

Anika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Anika in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	239	4 of 10	60
2000s	739	10 of 10	74
2010sbusiest	830	10 of 10	83
2020s	246	5 of 10	49

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 83 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births fell by 46, from 106 to 60.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Anika appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #93 in New Zealand in 2008.

Anika's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#869	42	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#746	49	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#616	63	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#872	41	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#682	57	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#670	60	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#413	106	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#468	93	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#609	68	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#448	97	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#415	102	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#516	83	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#545	76	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#468	88	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#447	93	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#557	68	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#479	82	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#484	79	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#506	69	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#463	75	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#467	72	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#398	83	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#466	65	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#527	53	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#483	60	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#403	77	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#527	50	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#506	52	High	Verified
2008	New Zealand	female	#93	46	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #93, first reached in 2008.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 106 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Anine · #112, 55y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Briana · #93, 31y
Bronte · #92, 30y
Whitney · #94, 30y
Aleisha · #95, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Athena · #93, 30y
Baby · #93, 29y
Briana · #93, 31y
Zayn · #93, 30y

Anika was ranked #93 in New Zealand · Girls in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Anika and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anika without appearing here.

Anika moved ahead of

Aimee Compare
In 2020 they stood at #872 and #749 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #616 and #1195.
Danielle Compare
In 2020 they stood at #872 and #853 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #616 and #1161.
Andrea Compare
In 2020 they stood at #872 and #872 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #616 and #1039.
Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #527 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #466 and #871.

Moved ahead of Anika

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #682 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #872 and #460.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #468 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #545 and #261.
Ida Compare
In 2014 they stood at #448 and #516 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #609 and #361.
Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #706 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #869 and #625.

Moved the opposite way to Anika

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Anika

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anika went from #506 to #869 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #93 in New Zealand in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anika

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anika across 2 official records

Anika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Anika across 2 official records

Anika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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