Meaning not yet researched.
Anh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,635 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,635 in 1984; #6,137 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Anh in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,137 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,635.
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Anh: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,635 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 67 (1984).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Anh, making it the 6,137th most common girls’ name of the year, up 54 places from #6,191 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 19 girls named Anh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,635, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #4,600 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Anh, making it the 8,304th most common boys’ name of the year, down 496 places from #7,808 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 10 boys named Anh in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,536, reached in 1983. That year also had the most boys given the name: 39. For comparison, it was #5,303 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anh in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 15 babies. In all, 2,296 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 786 babies named Anh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 213 US girls were named Anh; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ann (471,625 babies since 1880), Anne (325,954 babies since 1880), An (2,519 babies since 1880) and Aine (1,687 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Anh 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 | 19 | #6,137 | 9 | #8,304 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,191 | 10 | #7,808 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,441 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,474 | 5 | #12,472 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,767 | 12 | #6,726 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,498 | 10 | #7,538 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,383 | 7 | #9,819 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,676 | 8 | #8,874 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,486 | 14 | #6,074 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,435 | 19 | #4,956 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,600 | 17 | #5,303 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,325 | 11 | #7,087 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,072 | 12 | #6,628 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,053 | 6 | #10,873 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,752 | 6 | #10,895 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,869 | 5 | #12,359 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,274 | 12 | #6,828 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,366 | 10 | #7,725 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,107 | 5 | #12,476 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,825 | 13 | #6,115 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,616 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,296 | 10 | #7,006 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,354 | 12 | #5,895 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,191 | 6 | #9,458 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,331 | 7 | #8,390 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,991 | 12 | #5,599 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,094 | 12 | #5,335 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,971 | 9 | #6,351 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,670 | 10 | #5,665 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,304 | 14 | #4,408 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,357 | 11 | #5,141 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,449 | 12 | #4,816 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,995 | 23 | #2,947 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,146 | 14 | #4,120 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,448 | 7 | #6,553 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,853 | 27 | #2,492 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,529 | 25 | #2,546 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,933 | 26 | #2,305 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,437 | 17 | #2,951 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,344 | 26 | #2,161 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,998 | 33 | #1,794 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,635 | 27 | #1,979 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,799 | 39 | #1,536 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,923 | 28 | #1,931 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,769 | 28 | #1,944 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,982 | 21 | #2,368 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,081 | 12 | #3,365 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,471 | 10 | #3,626 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,919 | 13 | #3,046 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,228 | 13 | #2,954 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,541 | 5 | #5,498 |
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).