In 2025, 55 US girls were named Aniston, making it the 3,001st most common girls’ name of the year, down 441 places from #2,560 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 69 girls named Aniston in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,313, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 179. For comparison, it was #1,493 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aniston in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 12 babies. In all, 2,605 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,448 babies named Aniston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 920 US girls were named Aniston; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anniston (3,660 babies since 1880), Annistyn (1,537 babies since 1880) and Anistyn (1,074 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anastyn, Anistynn and Anastin are summarised on this page.