Anka (name)

Anka is a given name and a surname.

As a given name, it is a diminutive form (and hypocorism) of the female given name Ana.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Anka Lambreva (1895–1976), Bulgarian nurse, teacher and adventurer
• Anka Bakova (born 1957), Bulgarian former rower
• Anka Čekanová (1905–1965), Czech dancer
• Anka Đurović (1850–1925), Serbian nurse
• Anka Georgieva (born 1959), Bulgarian former rower
• Anka Grupińska (born 1956), Polish dissident, journalist and writer
• Anka Khristolova (born 1955), Bulgarian former volleyball player
• Anka Krizmanić (1896–1987), Croatian painter and printmaker
• Anka Muhlstein (born 1935), French historian and biographer
• Anka Obrenović (1821–1868), Serbian princess and writer
• Anka Wolbert (born 1963), Dutch musician, singer and songwriter

Surname

• Kris Anka, American comic book artist

• Paul Anka (born 1941), musician popular mainly in the 1950s and '60s in the United States
• Yushau Anka (born 1950), Nigerian politician

Fictional characters

• Arne Anka, a poet/party duck by the cartoonist Charlie Christensen
• Anka The Machine-Gunner, a female movie character popular in Russian humor
• Ankha, a villager in the Animal Crossing series of video games