Meaning not yet researched.
Anja: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,684 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,684 in 2002; #4,075 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anja in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,075 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,684.
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Anja: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,684 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 122 (2006).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Anja, making it the 4,075th most common girls’ name of the year, down 792 places from #3,283 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 48 girls named Anja in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,684, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,475 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anja in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 7 babies. In all, 2,797 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 872 babies named Anja.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 521 US girls were named Anja; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Annette (169,795 babies since 1880), Ana (111,960 babies since 1880) and Anya (20,561 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anjay and Anjae 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anjay (52), Anjae (6).
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 Anja 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 | 35 | #4,075 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,680 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,647 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,819 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,369 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,310 | — | — |
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).