How would you pronounce Anika?

dakiesgirl

I love the name.  Variants are Annika or Annica.

Also, any nicknames you can think of other than Annie or Ann?

 Thanks!

shipsshoessealingwax

Ann-ih-kah... Kind of like Vader from Star Wars (no disrespect, DH is a scifi geek)

I agree Nikki would be a cute nn! 

jupiterthecat

ON-nick-a. Like Monica, but with the M lopped off. 

Zimger

AHN-nee-kah

I'm really fond of this name!

TKtravels

This x 2.  

Anika is a common nickname here in Poland.   

PinkyFloyd73

An-neek-ah. I think it's cute.

 

Annika or Annica I would pronounce as Ann-ick-ah. I like Anika better.

DawnJM25

jupiterthecat:

ON-nick-a. Like Monica, but with the M lopped off. 

This.

ashtonblair123

I would pronounce it an-EEK-uh.

 I think Ann, Annie, and Nikki would be the nicknames.

puppy_love6969

Ann-ih-ka

jelina

Anika= Ann-ih-kuh

Annika= AHN-ih-kuh

 

have no idea if this is correct but I know people who spell it each way and it is pronounced differently by them.

elfchique

rhymes with Monica. 

bearkatjen

Zimger:

AHN-nee-kah

I'm really fond of this name!

This!

I'm surprised so many people don't know how to pronounce this name. 

Wufroggy79

AWE NICK AH

SunshineMuffin

I've known several women with this name (all over 35).  i've never heard it pronounced any way other than: Ah-nick-uh

af1274

CabbageCabbage:

AHN-ih-kah. I've known two women with this name and that's the only pronunciation I've ever heard. 

All of this. 

ta78

CARunner:

Ann-ih-kuh

What about Nik or NIkki Or Nikka? 

Please do not use Nikka as a nickname.

TofuMama7

jupiterthecat:

ON-nick-a. Like Monica, but with the M lopped off. 

This. Monica with no M.

SarainBuffalo

I'd pronounce it as AH-KNEE-Ca.

 

My dd (age 9) is Annica (Ann -ick - a) - and yes, it's is after Star Wars - Anakin - my husband is a huge fan- and about half the time if not more people start out with On-ick-a and DD corrects them.  We teasingly call her Ah-knee-qua since we both think it is quite a leap to that name from her spelling but sometimes it happens,  Very rarely does anyone shorten it, but DD likes Annie, never thought of shortening it to Nicki. I have to admit that people seem to love her name and we have gotten many compliments over it and I am happy that so far she has never met another person with her name.  In fact, now I am having a hard time coming up with a name for our soon to be DS, nothing measures up. 

 

 

Eilis123

CabbageCabbage:

AHN-ih-kah. I've known two women with this name and that's the only pronunciation I've ever heard. 

This.  Annika is our DDs name, and she was named after my grandma from Sweden.

Her nickname was going to be Annie, but DH started calling her Nika and it stuck (my mother hates this as her nickname, but oh well )

I've seen Anika pronounced A-n?e-ka, but only in African American communities, as a name completely different from the Swedish Annika or German Anika. 

dakiesgirl

@TKtravels: What is it a nickname for?  (My Mother's family is polish.)  Does it have a particular meaning?