Meaning not yet researched.
Anel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,617 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,617 in 1974; #12,029 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,029 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #1,617.
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Anel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,617 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 76 (1991).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Anel, making it the 12,029th most common girls’ name of the year, down 830 places from #11,199 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Anel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,617, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 1991. For comparison, it was #7,653 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Anel in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #4,287, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 19. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anel in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 11 babies. In all, 2,141 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 584 babies named Anel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 123 US girls were named Anel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Anil, Annell and Annel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anil (1,160), Annell (653), Annel (551), Aniel (434), Anuel (334), Anael (280), Anelle (174), Anele (60), Anell (47), Aneil (35), Aneel (20), Annael (15), and more.
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 Anel 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 | 7 | #12,029 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,199 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,524 | 5 | #12,369 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,114 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,229 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,956 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,439 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,440 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,483 | 5 | #12,380 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,444 | 5 | #12,310 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,653 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,483 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,485 | 8 | #8,842 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,514 | 6 | #10,871 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,450 | 7 | #9,666 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,245 | 9 | #8,181 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,879 | 9 | #8,339 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,187 | 12 | #6,784 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,055 | 12 | #6,647 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,623 | 13 | #6,113 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,741 | 16 | #5,048 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,076 | 12 | #6,152 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,887 | 19 | #4,287 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,937 | 13 | #5,417 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,146 | 17 | #4,487 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,459 | 10 | #6,340 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,101 | 14 | #4,776 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,696 | 11 | #5,486 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,735 | 6 | #8,180 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,800 | 8 | #6,529 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,689 | 6 | #7,837 |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,125 | 8 | #6,406 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,883 | 7 | #6,851 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,574 | 6 | #6,982 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,173 | 7 | #5,481 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,207 | 7 | #5,360 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,726 | 6 | #5,511 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,819 | — | — |
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).