Entry № 686 · Croatian origin

Anka Anka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Croatian
Meaning
"Grace, favor"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "grace, favor".

Anka is a name of Croatian origin, meaning grace and favor.

Grace, favor — a Croatian name.

The name in its native script.

Anka
Transliteration
Anka
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Anka stands.

Anka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ankas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Anka.

The number behind Anka.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anka reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.