Annick

Girls' name

Form of Annaig

Annick has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 1964. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Annick, 2014

1 in 618,000

Annick over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annick: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Annaig

Breton

What Annick means

Annick is a form of Annaig.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Annick is used in Breton and French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.nik/ for Annick.

Origin, language, and formation

Annick is used in French. Its origins include Breton.

Annick comes through Breton Annig.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annaig and Anne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Annick is pronounced /a.nik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 169 girls were recorded with the name Annick between 1964 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1990; its best national rank was #4,640 in 1967.

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.

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How common is Annick?

Annick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annick 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 2014 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 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annicks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annick was born before 1989 — so the typical Annick is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
169
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1990s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Annick 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (11)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,640
1967

Spellings of Annick

Annick is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 92.0% against Annick's 0.04%.

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.

Annick around the world

Where Annick 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.

  • Ireland
    1980–1980
    #432
    in 1980
  • France
    1902–2022
    #5,511
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Annick by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,640
1967
Peak year
1990
11 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
169
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Annick

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Sibling names for Annick

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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