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Anique

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Anique is a girls' name. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Anique come from?

Perhaps Arabic Aniqa 'elegant', or a variant of Annick or Anika

Is Anique a girl's or a boy's name?

Anique is a girls' name.

How popular is Anique in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.

Half of all the girls named Anique in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

1979Busiest: 34 in 20042018
Anique in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20185#15,677
20170–
20166#14,326
20156#14,477
20148#11,925
20130–
20120–
20110–
20106#14,953
20095#17,288
20087#13,827
20078#12,671
20069#11,412
200510#10,123
200434#4,089
200312#8,500
20029#10,240
200111#8,751
200010#9,156
19996#12,681
19985#14,116
199711#7,737
199610#8,127
19958#9,548
199412#7,091
19938#9,552
199220#4,842
19917#10,263
19907#10,187
19890–
19886#10,381
198711#6,330
198610#6,609
19859#6,952
19840–
19835#10,272
19825#10,514
19818#7,407
19806#9,093
19795#10,208

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Anique: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anique, updated 20 October 2026.