girls:
349 births since 2001
#5367 (6th percentile)
overall:
349 births since 2001
#7390 (4th percentile)
The name Aanika is the #7,390 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 349 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,367 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 349 births since 2001.
Aanika first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for girls in 2001).
For girls, Aanika reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #941) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aanika ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 23.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aanika".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Aanika. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.7% confident that Aanika is pronounced as AH-nih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-nee-kuh, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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