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Annica

Gender
Girl
Say it
AH-nee-tsah
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Annica is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “grace, favour”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Annica mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Anica; Slovene, Croatian and Serbian pet form of Ana (Hannah)

“grace, favour”

A Slovene, Croatian and Serbian pet form of Ana, the local form of Hannah.

Meaning borrowed from Anica.

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

Annica is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Annica in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Annica, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.

Half of all the girls named Annica in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1972Busiest: 37 in 20072025
Annica in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20247#12,156
20235#15,188
20226#13,586
20215#15,246
20207#12,137
20195#15,532
20187#12,459
20179#10,685
20169#10,855
201510#10,143
201416#7,300
20139#10,995
201215#7,800
201121#6,145
201015#7,877
200918#7,063
200822#6,127
200737#4,130
200633#4,357
200521#5,795
200424#5,204
200325#4,938
200220#5,669
200121#5,359
200018#5,932
199923#4,713
19988#10,116
199719#5,224
199614#6,387
19958#9,548
199410#8,116
199310#8,045
199215#6,001
19916#11,501
199010#7,874
198910#7,443
198810#7,106
198710#6,783
19868#7,745
198511#6,029
19848#7,396
19839#6,703
19826#9,235
19819#6,802
198016#4,516
19798#7,311
19788#6,946
19775#9,650
19765#9,282
19750–
19746#7,678
19730–
19726#7,290

Names like Annica

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Annica: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/annica, updated 20 October 2026.