Anika
From the Hebrew for "grace". Just over a thousand women in Poland carry it, few enough that most people will never meet one, and after a peak in the 2010s the name keeps fading.
Anika Pronunciation
Anika is pronounced ah-NYEE-kah (/aˈɲika/).
What Anika means
Where Anika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anika comes from Hebrew, from Channah, a name that once meant grace or favor. Polish carries that older meaning in a single word, łaska, the same word used for mercy shown without being earned.
The sense of grace was tied to the biblical Hannah, who prayed for a son and gave thanks when he arrived. That idea of favor followed the name into other languages and shorter shapes, Anika among them. On a Polish school register it reads cleanly. Teachers rarely stumble over it, and children learn to write the hard k in the middle without much fuss.
The name holds something old. Grace, favor, łaska, all pointing back to one Hebrew root. It is a word that outlived the language where it began.
When Anika celebrates name day
Anika appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Anika
1 in 19334 women in Poland is named Anika. 1,166 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #893 among female names.
Anika's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1002 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade. Still the #893 name among living women, even as it slips to #1002 among newborns.
Where Anika is most popular
Anika is most popular in Pomeranian, 91% above the national average (10 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+79%) and Masovian (+74%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Greater Poland, 53% and 48% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian10 girls born+91%
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Lower Silesian10 girls born+79%
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Masovian22 girls born+74%
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Lesser Poland12 girls born+48%
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Lublin5 girls born+37%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−15%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−22%
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Silesian6 girls born−26%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born−34%
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Greater Poland4 girls born−48%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−53%
Anika as a middle name
Anika is a first name for 1,166 women in Poland and a middle name for another 216, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 460th, between Serafina (217) and Izydora (216).
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#458 Sylvia218
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#459 Serafina217
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#460 Anika216
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#461 Izydora216
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#462 Halszka214