Meaning not yet researched.
Anayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 289 in 2025. Its best rank was #913 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Anayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#913 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Anayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 289 girls in 2025. Peak: #913 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 289 (2025).
In 2025, 289 US girls were named Anayah, making it the 913th most common girls’ name of the year, up 149 places from #1,062 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 235 girls named Anayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #913, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 289. For comparison, it was #1,239 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anayah in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 8 babies. In all, 3,672 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,589 babies named Anayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,808 US girls were named Anayah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 289. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,561 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anayah ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #216 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anaya (17,997 babies since 1880), Anaiah (3,463 babies since 1880), Anaiya (2,240 babies since 1880) and Anay (2,055 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Annaiah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Annaiah (14).
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 Anayah in the open dataset we use.
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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 5 | #216 | — |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #337 | #746 |
| Florida | 53 | #345 | #772 |
| Indiana | 14 | #488 | — |
| New Jersey | 15 | #501 | #1,195 |
| Maryland | 9 | #553 | #903 |
| Oregon | 5 | #632 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #739 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #751 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #820 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #920 | #785 |
| New York | 15 | #986 | #858 |
| Georgia | 9 | #992 | #1,177 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,067 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,145 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,157 | #1,037 |
| California | 20 | #1,236 | #1,144 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 289 | #913 | — | — |
| 2024 | 235 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2023 | 180 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 2016 | 193 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 2015 | 197 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2009 | 141 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,978 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,569 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,379 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,634 | — | — |
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).