Meaning not yet researched.
Ana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,276 in 2025. Its best rank was #119 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #119 in 1991; #245 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#245 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #119.
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Ana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,276 girls in 2025. Peak: #119 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 2,652 (1991).
In 2025, 1,276 US girls were named Ana, making it the 245th most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #204 in 2024. That is 228 fewer than the 1,504 girls named Ana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #119, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,652. For comparison, it was #211 in 2015 and #556 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ana in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 111,960 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 23,715 babies named Ana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,776 US girls were named Ana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,504. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,260 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ana ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #71 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Amy (703,484 babies since 1880), Ann (471,625 babies since 1880) and Anne (325,954 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anayi, Anea and Anaih are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Galician, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Seediq, Slovene and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anayi (104), Anea (96), Anaih (64), Anagh (44), Anaie (32), Ghana (12), Anaee (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ana in the open dataset we use.
Ana is listed as a nickname for Anastasia, Bryanna.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 77 | #71 | #125 |
| Texas | 298 | #93 | #88 |
| Florida | 117 | #151 | #191 |
| Alabama | 26 | #166 | #203 |
| California | 184 | #174 | #163 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #177 | #185 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #224 | #205 |
| Nevada | 11 | #237 | #198 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #248 | #423 |
| North Carolina | 40 | #274 | #259 |
| Georgia | 36 | #280 | #221 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #283 | #352 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #298 | #316 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #298 | #279 |
| Colorado | 20 | #299 | #277 |
| New Jersey | 27 | #304 | #234 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #306 | #334 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #307 | #122 |
| Illinois | 33 | #325 | #232 |
| Kansas | 10 | #326 | #222 |
| Maryland | 16 | #331 | #250 |
| Utah | 13 | #332 | #295 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #335 | #313 |
| Washington | 21 | #345 | #274 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #379 | #318 |
| New York | 44 | #391 | #223 |
| Virginia | 20 | #397 | #198 |
| Oregon | 9 | #398 | #278 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #410 | #223 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #468 | #423 |
| Indiana | 14 | #487 | #399 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #546 | #341 |
| Iowa | 5 | #572 | #330 |
| Michigan | 13 | #595 | #424 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #621 | #445 |
| Ohio | 16 | #623 | #413 |
| Missouri | 8 | #643 | #609 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,276 | #245 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,504 | #204 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,336 | #223 | 5 | #12,359 |
| 2022 | 1,403 | #208 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,282 | #234 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,238 | #244 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,395 | #223 | 6 | #10,887 |
| 2018 | 1,449 | #215 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,457 | #211 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,436 | #222 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,548 | #211 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,538 | #219 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,349 | #236 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,462 | #217 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,334 | #238 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,575 | #197 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,826 | #180 | 7 | #9,918 |
| 2008 | 1,955 | #170 | 6 | #11,119 |
| 2007 | 2,228 | #161 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,414 | #144 | 6 | #10,749 |
| 2005 | 2,354 | #147 | 11 | #6,662 |
| 2004 | 2,348 | #139 | 7 | #8,975 |
| 2003 | 2,595 | #129 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,537 | #134 | 8 | #7,679 |
| 2001 | 2,518 | #134 | 11 | #6,032 |
| 2000 | 2,428 | #136 | 8 | #7,465 |
| 1999 | 2,113 | #154 | 6 | #8,760 |
| 1998 | 2,265 | #140 | 8 | #6,875 |
| 1997 | 2,318 | #139 | 12 | #4,974 |
| 1996 | 2,307 | #141 | 12 | #4,897 |
| 1995 | 2,367 | #134 | 14 | #4,291 |
| 1994 | 2,211 | #143 | 15 | #4,103 |
| 1993 | 2,366 | #136 | 26 | #2,698 |
| 1992 | 2,328 | #137 | 22 | #3,005 |
| 1991 | 2,652 | #119 | 20 | #3,108 |
| 1990 | 2,614 | #124 | 39 | #1,946 |
| 1989 | 2,276 | #131 | 29 | #2,293 |
| 1988 | 1,665 | #170 | 22 | #2,604 |
| 1987 | 1,647 | #169 | 13 | #3,534 |
| 1986 | 1,641 | #166 | 21 | #2,514 |
| 1985 | 1,470 | #183 | 22 | #2,359 |
| 1984 | 1,391 | #193 | 15 | #2,960 |
| 1983 | 1,309 | #201 | 23 | #2,209 |
| 1982 | 1,365 | #200 | 16 | #2,834 |
| 1981 | 1,441 | #189 | 14 | #3,037 |
| 1980 | 1,325 | #198 | 15 | #2,969 |
| 1979 | 1,140 | #229 | 9 | #4,083 |
| 1978 | 1,139 | #220 | 16 | #2,671 |
| 1977 | 1,137 | #218 | 12 | #3,208 |
| 1976 | 1,165 | #211 | 10 | #3,480 |
| 1975 | 1,157 | #213 | 15 | #2,641 |
| 1974 | 1,179 | #218 | 8 | #3,852 |
| 1973 | 1,097 | #232 | 13 | #2,719 |
| 1972 | 1,086 | #249 | 9 | #3,355 |
| 1971 | 1,069 | #269 | 6 | #4,392 |
| 1970 | 1,048 | #280 | 11 | #2,896 |
| 1969 | 961 | #292 | 9 | #3,072 |
| 1968 | 923 | #286 | 8 | #3,116 |
| 1967 | 847 | #297 | — | — |
| 1966 | 820 | #310 | — | — |
| 1965 | 812 | #317 | — | — |
| 1964 | 758 | #345 | 6 | #3,613 |
| 1963 | 769 | #341 | 6 | #3,662 |
| 1962 | 686 | #361 | — | — |
| 1961 | 649 | #379 | — | — |
| 1960 | 619 | #382 | — | — |
| 1959 | 579 | #393 | 6 | #3,631 |
| 1958 | 539 | #396 | — | — |
| 1957 | 479 | #430 | 6 | #3,564 |
| 1956 | 469 | #419 | — | — |
| 1955 | 387 | #458 | — | — |
| 1954 | 387 | #448 | — | — |
| 1953 | 321 | #480 | — | — |
| 1952 | 288 | #494 | — | — |
| 1951 | 258 | #516 | — | — |
| 1950 | 223 | #556 | — | — |
| 1949 | 235 | #546 | — | — |
| 1948 | 226 | #552 | 7 | #3,015 |
| 1947 | 166 | #645 | — | — |
| 1946 | 135 | #686 | — | — |
| 1945 | 121 | #673 | — | — |
| 1944 | 114 | #701 | — | — |
| 1943 | 108 | #745 | — | — |
| 1942 | 88 | #814 | — | — |
| 1941 | 78 | #815 | — | — |
| 1940 | 67 | #868 | — | — |
| 1939 | 70 | #826 | — | — |
| 1938 | 79 | #792 | — | — |
| 1937 | 63 | #870 | — | — |
| 1936 | 80 | #748 | — | — |
| 1935 | 78 | #766 | — | — |
| 1934 | 84 | #728 | — | — |
| 1933 | 59 | #878 | — | — |
| 1932 | 67 | #847 | — | — |
| 1931 | 73 | #793 | — | — |
| 1930 | 99 | #690 | 5 | #4,020 |
| 1929 | 83 | #764 | — | — |
| 1928 | 82 | #791 | — | — |
| 1927 | 89 | #766 | — | — |
| 1926 | 71 | #880 | — | — |
| 1925 | 60 | #960 | — | — |
| 1924 | 61 | #976 | — | — |
| 1923 | 64 | #912 | — | — |
| 1922 | 67 | #891 | — | — |
| 1921 | 67 | #908 | — | — |
| 1920 | 66 | #894 | — | — |
| 1919 | 58 | #925 | — | — |
| 1918 | 57 | #948 | — | — |
| 1917 | 51 | #978 | — | — |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1915 | 43 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1911 | 34 | #741 | — | — |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1907 | 21 | #821 | — | — |
| 1906 | 18 | #872 | — | — |
| 1905 | 26 | #700 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #899 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #873 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #888 | — | — |
| 1899 | 13 | #909 | — | — |
| 1898 | 16 | #841 | — | — |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1896 | 12 | #955 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #957 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1890 | 16 | #668 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #906 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #754 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #733 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #925 | — | — |
| 1884 | 13 | #585 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #754 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #746 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #583 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #841 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).