Anvika
Feminine · “a name of the goddess”
Anvika is listed in Sanskrit sources as a name of the goddess Durga, and it is built on anu — along, or following — with a diminutive ending.
How old is the name Anvika?
Anvika first appears in US birth records in 2006 — 19 years ago. The typical Anvika is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Anvika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anvika most popular?
Anvika peaked in 2025, reaching #1673 nationally. Today it ranks #1673, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From anu to Anvika
The story of Anvika
Anvika belongs to the wave of short Sanskrit girls' names that rose in Indian naming from the 2010s — Anvika, Anvi, Aarna, Aadya — replacing longer traditional compounds. It rose sharply through that decade in India. Indian emigration carried it to America, where it appears in the registers and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
a name of the goddess
Listed in modern Indian naming sources as an epithet of Durga, built on the Sanskrit anu, 'after' or 'along'. The goddess reading is offered widely but is not firmly established in the classical dictionaries, and the exact form is recent. Only the anu element is settled.
How the name formed
- anu
- Anvika
Related forms: अन्विका · Anvica · Anvi
Pronouncing Anvika
AHN-vih-kah
Three syllables, stress on the first. The nv is a single cluster that English speakers sometimes split.
Nicknames for Anvika
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2006
- Most girls named
- 2025123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1673reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +66.2%123 in 2025, from 74
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Anvika in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- अन्विका in Hindi — transliteration
- Anvica in English — spelling variant
- Anvi in Hindi — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New Jersey.
Anvikas among us
people named Anvika are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,067 born in 2025 was named Anvika
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kaylei test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anvika's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kaylei climbed just as high around 2006, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kaylei's path sketches the road Anvika is walking now.
Anvika is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Anvika is headed
Anvika should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Anvika beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anvika in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A major goddess of the Hindu tradition is named in it.
- Anvi and Vika are two short forms, both names in their own right.
- It is current and rising rather than revived.
- The goddess reading is offered by modern sources rather than firmly established.
- The nv cluster is unfamiliar to English speakers.
- It is very new in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anvikas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Anvika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anvika in 2025?
- Anvika ranks #1673 among US girl names in 2025, with 123 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anvika?
- About 1 in every 13,067 US girls born in 2025 was named Anvika — 123 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anvika with classmates?
- Anvika will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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