Meaning not yet researched.
Anela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,369 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,369 in 2003; #2,903 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,903 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #2,369.
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Anela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,369 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 79 (2007).
In 2025, 58 US girls were named Anela, making it the 2,903rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 114 places from #3,017 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 54 girls named Anela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,369, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 79, in 2007. For comparison, it was #3,658 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anela in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 1,793 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 590 babies named Anela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 464 US girls were named Anela; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anela ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #22 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Anyla (2,795 babies since 1880) and Anylah (1,783 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Annella and Aniella 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: Annella (519), Aniella (184).
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 Anela 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 17 | #22 | #54 |
| California | 13 | #1,659 | #2,746 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,187 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,931 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,380 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,660 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,268 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,670 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,829 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,456 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,145 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,928 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,734 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,388 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,481 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,924 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,341 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,916 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,988 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,946 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,485 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,616 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,131 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,285 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,027 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,392 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,048 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,801 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,274 | — | — |
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).