Meaning not yet researched.
Anai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,378 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,378 in 2001; #4,669 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anai in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,669 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,378.
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Anai: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,378 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 139 (2005).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Anai, making it the 4,669th most common girls’ name of the year, up 962 places from #5,631 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 22 girls named Anai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,378, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 139, in 2005. For comparison, it was #4,151 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anai in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 2,327 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,148 babies named Anai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 292 US girls were named Anai; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Ana (111,960 babies since 1880), Anahi (19,390 babies since 1880) and Anaya (17,997 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Anai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,669 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,631 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,172 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,796 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,589 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,931 | — | — |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,125 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,910 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,601 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,588 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,187 | — | — |
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).