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Annica

#15,149 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Annika

Annica has been given to 648 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #15,149 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Annica, 2025

1 in 663,000

Annica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annica: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Annika

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annica means

Annica is a variant of Annika.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Annica is used in Swedish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈǎn.nɪ.ka/ for Annica.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Annica → Annika → Annika → Anna. The family’s meaning is “grace, gracious”, recorded in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annika.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 648 girls were recorded with the name Annica between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,139 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,275 in 2020 to #15,149 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,221 in 2015 to #15,149 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Annica?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,149
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annica was born before 2003 — so the typical Annica is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
648
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Annica rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,874
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,874
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,928
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.5%
Peak was 2007 (37)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,139
2007

Spellings of Annica

Annica is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 49.1% against Annica's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Annica is used

Across 1910–2025, Annica was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 696,208 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Annica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annica around the world

Where Annica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • Canada
    2003–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1983–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Annica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,149
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,874
Best rank ever
#4,139
2007
Peak year
2007
37 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
648
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Annica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Annica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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