Meaning not yet researched.
Anay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,582 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,582 in 2017; #2,646 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anay in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,646 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,582.
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Anay: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,582 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 102 (2017).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Anay, making it the 2,646th most common boys’ name of the year, up 145 places from #2,791 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 46 boys named Anay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,582, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #1,872 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Anay in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,704, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was #11,922 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anay in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 5 babies. In all, 2,055 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 865 babies named Anay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 587 US boys were named Anay; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anay ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,697 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Anay 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,697 | #1,259 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,646 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,791 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,615 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,720 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,075 |
| 2020 | — | — | 57 | #2,349 |
| 2019 | — | — | 60 | #2,293 |
| 2018 | — | — | 77 | #1,920 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,290 | 102 | #1,582 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,946 | 87 | #1,764 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,922 | 78 | #1,872 |
| 2014 | — | — | 78 | #1,873 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,665 | 86 | #1,709 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,112 | 75 | #1,910 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,210 | 86 | #1,721 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,794 | 61 | #2,171 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,811 | 53 | #2,403 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,013 | 34 | #3,291 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,383 | 35 | #3,189 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,510 | 34 | #3,156 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,370 | 19 | #4,475 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,996 | 19 | #4,428 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,136 | 16 | #4,823 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,784 | 17 | #4,514 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,704 | 9 | #6,954 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,433 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,981 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,164 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,564 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,075 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,299 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,504 | — | — |
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).