Anika
Anika is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Incense.
What Anika means
Incense.
Anika sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Anika comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Anika is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Anika?
You will not find Anika in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
Names like Anika
These share Anika's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Achika — Excellent.
- Aeka — Excellent.
- Aeko — Child.
- Aemi — Reality.
- Ageha — Waves.
- Aguri — Ri.
- Aika — Flower.
- Aiko — Child.
- Aimi — Beauty.
- Aina — Vegetable.