Meaning not yet researched.
Anakin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 427 in 2025. Its best rank was #544 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #544 in 2023; #648 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Anakin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#648 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #544.
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Anakin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 427 boys in 2025. Peak: #544 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 541 (2023).
In 2025, 427 US boys were named Anakin, making it the 648th most common boys’ name of the year, down 58 places from #590 in 2024. That is 58 fewer than the 485 boys named Anakin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #544, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 541. For comparison, it was #909 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anakin in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 5,892 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,736 babies named Anakin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,832 US boys were named Anakin; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 541. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,000 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anakin ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #299 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Aniken, Anikin and Anakyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aniken (126), Anikin (94), Anakyn (56), Anikan (16), Anikyn (8), Anaken (5).
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 Anakin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 6 | #299 | — |
| New Mexico | 6 | #312 | — |
| Kentucky | 14 | #346 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #362 | #395 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #396 | — |
| California | 79 | #415 | #627 |
| Iowa | 7 | #451 | — |
| Ohio | 23 | #455 | #651 |
| Texas | 69 | #485 | #1,365 |
| Arizona | 14 | #491 | #886 |
| Oregon | 6 | #535 | — |
| Illinois | 17 | #544 | #987 |
| Kansas | 5 | #594 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #619 | #605 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #621 | #995 |
| Colorado | 8 | #628 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #720 | #1,084 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #743 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #776 | #794 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #781 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #790 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #846 | #629 |
| Florida | 17 | #849 | #804 |
| Washington | 6 | #905 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #974 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,102 | #912 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,327 | 427 | #648 |
| 2024 | — | — | 485 | #590 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,589 | 541 | #544 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,450 | 464 | #606 |
| 2021 | — | — | 431 | #640 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,579 | 361 | #702 |
| 2019 | — | — | 222 | #962 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,869 | 270 | #827 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,283 | 323 | #736 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,004 | 308 | #776 |
| 2015 | — | — | 237 | #909 |
| 2014 | — | — | 220 | #959 |
| 2013 | — | — | 143 | #1,238 |
| 2012 | — | — | 128 | #1,328 |
| 2011 | — | — | 91 | #1,657 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,574 |
| 2009 | — | — | 119 | #1,413 |
| 2008 | — | — | 101 | #1,571 |
| 2007 | — | — | 102 | #1,539 |
| 2006 | — | — | 120 | #1,350 |
| 2005 | — | — | 133 | #1,197 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,858 |
| 2003 | — | — | 54 | #2,078 |
| 2002 | — | — | 69 | #1,694 |
| 2001 | — | — | 66 | #1,733 |
| 2000 | — | — | 96 | #1,334 |
| 1999 | — | — | 114 | #1,150 |
| 1998 | — | — | 26 | #3,019 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,462 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,011 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #8,935 |
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).