Meaning not yet researched.
Ani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,686 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,686 in 2004; #2,961 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,961 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #1,686.
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Ani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,686 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 122 (2007).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Ani, making it the 2,961st most common girls’ name of the year, down 651 places from #2,310 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 80 girls named Ani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,686, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,353 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ani in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 7 babies. In all, 3,188 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,043 babies named Ani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 750 US girls were named Ani; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ani ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,239 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ana (111,960 babies since 1880), Ami (8,100 babies since 1880), An (2,519 babies since 1880) and Annie (362,180 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ayani, Ayoni and Eni 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: Ayani (496), Ayoni (22), Eni (5).
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 Ani 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,239 | #1,088 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,761 | 5 | #12,477 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1995 | 56 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,521 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,522 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,480 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,984 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,032 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,789 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,027 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,910 | — | — |
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).