As if a kr8iv form of
Annika would be at all difficult to live with.
Annakiya is a neat name. I would be a bit wary of using it because I don't understand it as fully as I do names used in American culture a lot, but it is neat. I like it way more than
Annika, which is too precious to me. It has lots of accessible nicknames and two pretty accessible pronunciations. Snappy pronunciations too, that would fit right in with modern names.
And I am sorry that you are going to get between four and twelve responses saying "Looks like kre8ive annika to me even though it isn't and therefore I do not like it." That is very frustrating. It is always frustrating to get more totally boring, obvious, and unhelpful responses than helpful ones. Whenever I ask any sort of question about
Rudolf I get four to twelve responses informing me that "all I can think of is the reindeer." Real helpful. Obviously I have considered the reindeer issue. Can't you swallow your associations with
Annika and the reindeer a minute and think about the actual
name?
etc etc etc.
I am still baffled over my "Nicknames for
Octavia? Please do not suggest Octy, even though it is the most obvious one, I do not like it. Here are other ones I have considered and some of my concerns about them. Which do you like?" and wham bam the first response I got "for
Octavia I think Octy would be a good nickname."
I did get some helpful responses out of that though
anyway yeah. good luck with all of this.