Meaning not yet researched.
Ananya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,167 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,167 in 2006; #3,105 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ananya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,105 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,167.
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Ananya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,167 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 214 (2008).
In 2025, 52 US girls were named Ananya, making it the 3,105th most common girls’ name of the year, down 797 places from #2,308 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 80 girls named Ananya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,167, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 214, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,366 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ananya in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 10 babies. In all, 4,015 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,679 babies named Ananya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,131 US girls were named Ananya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Anani, Ananiah and Anania 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anani (346), Ananiah (180), Anania (54), Anannya (6), Ananyaa (5), Annanya (5), Ananiya (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 Ananya 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 | 52 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 2020 | 133 | #1,578 | 5 | #12,147 |
| 2019 | 138 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 2018 | 148 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 2015 | 173 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2014 | 189 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2013 | 181 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2010 | 184 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 2009 | 209 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2008 | 214 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2007 | 197 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 2006 | 208 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2005 | 191 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2004 | 175 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2002 | 151 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,859 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,113 | — | — |
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).