Meaning not yet researched.
Anniston: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 139 in 2025. Its best rank was #898 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #898 in 2014; #1,525 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anniston in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,525 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #898.
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Anniston: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 139 girls in 2025. Peak: #898 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 302 (2014).
In 2025, 139 US girls were named Anniston, making it the 1,525th most common girls’ name of the year, down 140 places from #1,385 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 163 girls named Anniston in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #898, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 302. For comparison, it was #1,039 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anniston in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 7 babies. In all, 3,660 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,207 babies named Anniston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,886 US girls were named Anniston; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 273. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,563 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anniston ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #432 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aniston (2,605 babies since 1880), Annistyn (1,537 babies since 1880) and Anistyn (1,074 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Annastyn, Annaston and Anisten 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: Annastyn (237), Annaston (159), Anisten (156), Annisten (89), Anaston (63), Annastin (26), Annyston (25), Anyston (24), Anistin (7), Annistin (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 Anniston 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 10 | #432 | #299 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #448 | #244 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #494 | #504 |
| Alabama | 9 | #530 | #494 |
| Georgia | 16 | #646 | #370 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #649 | #298 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,152 | #766 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,464 | #1,315 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,191 | #1,127 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2023 | 168 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 2018 | 224 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2017 | 234 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 2016 | 273 | #980 | — | — |
| 2015 | 256 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 2014 | 302 | #898 | — | — |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2012 | 204 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,449 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,591 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,577 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,080 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,668 | — | — |
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).