Anika
42
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 106
-18%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Anika
Anika has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 42 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 57% on a decade earlier.
Anika reached its peak in 2017, when 106 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #413 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 40% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,054 girls have been officially registered with the name Anika in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 727 girls were registered with the name, starting from 97 in 2014 and ending at 42 in 2024.