Annika is a girl's name of German origin. Its meaning is not recorded in the standard references we check — we would rather tell you that plainly than guess. In 2024 it was given to 271 girls in the United States.
Annika belongs to the German and Scandinavian tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Annika first appears in Social Security records in 1961. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #285 in 2003, and in 2024 271 babies received the name — 19,337 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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The meaning of Annika is not recorded in the standard references we check. Rather than repeat an unsourced claim, we leave it open — its German origin is documented, but its exact meaning is not.
Annika is a girl name. In 2024, 271 babies received the name in the US.
Annika comes from the German and Scandinavian tradition.
Annika first appears in US records in 1961. Its best-ever ranking was #285 in 2003, and 271 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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