girls:
17 births since 1985
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
377 births since 1985
#4209 (8th percentile)
overall:
394 births since 1985
#7345 (5th percentile)
The name Anik is the #7,345 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 394 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,209 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 377 births since 1985. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1985.
Anik first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 . Birth data for Anik is available in 28 out of the 39 years between 1985 and 2023 (28 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Anik has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Anik reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #890) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Anik ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 56.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anik reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #884) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anik".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Anik. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.9% confident that Anik is pronounced as AH-nihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-NIHK, at 26.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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