Annika
From Hebrew, carrying the sense of "grace". A Scandinavian form most Poles have never met: only 193 women hold it, and it fades further each year.
Annika Pronunciation
Annika is pronounced ahn-NYEE-kah (/anˈɲika/).
What Annika means
Where Annika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Annika grew up in Sweden and Finland as a pet form of Anna. The root sits much further back, in the Hebrew Hannah, or Channah, which carried the meaning "grace." The origin is Semitic. The sound most people recognize is Scandinavian. That meaning, łaska in Polish, came down through the biblical Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, who prayed for a child and named him a gift.
The -ka ending did the softening that Swedish liked. It turned the formal Anna into something closer, a name to call across a room.
In Poland, Annika reads as an import. A teacher taking the class register might pause on it once, then move on. It sits near Anna and Hania without belonging to either, a Nordic cousin who kept the Hebrew sense of the word.
What stays constant under every spelling is the meaning the Hebrew gave it: grace.
How many people are named Annika
1 in 116807 women in Poland is named Annika. 193 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2281 among female names.
Annika's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Annika as a middle name
Annika is a first name for 193 women in Poland and a middle name for another 40, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1087th, between Theresia (41) and Arya (40).
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#1085 Taida41
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#1086 Theresia41
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#1087 Annika40
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#1088 Arya40
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#1089 Giovanna40