Meaning not yet researched.
Anya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 821 in 2025. Its best rank was #363 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #363 in 2009; #375 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#375 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #363.
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Anya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 821 girls in 2025. Peak: #363 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 895 (2007).
In 2025, 821 US girls were named Anya, making it the 375th most common girls’ name of the year, up 19 places from #394 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 801 girls named Anya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #363, reached in 2009. The most girls given the name in a single year was 895, in 2007. For comparison, it was #550 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anya in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 20,561 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,877 babies named Anya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,837 US girls were named Anya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 821. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,958 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anya ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #141 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Ann (471,625 babies since 1880), Annette (169,795 babies since 1880) and Ana (111,960 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Manya, Ranya and Ahnya 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: Manya (1,024), Ranya (998), Ahnya (161), Aunya (120), Anyea (57), Aunyae (38), Anyha (21), Aenea (17), Aneea (12), Anyhia (10), Aneeya (5), Ahnyia (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 Anya 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #141 | — |
| Arizona | 37 | #174 | #433 |
| Washington | 34 | #210 | #411 |
| Nevada | 11 | #240 | — |
| California | 134 | #246 | #527 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #264 | #237 |
| Texas | 107 | #318 | #1,094 |
| New York | 53 | #318 | #441 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #352 | #484 |
| Illinois | 28 | #363 | #509 |
| Colorado | 16 | #372 | #446 |
| Utah | 11 | #387 | #427 |
| Ohio | 29 | #392 | #905 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #402 | #364 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #427 | #389 |
| Virginia | 18 | #436 | #302 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #436 | #1,077 |
| Michigan | 19 | #440 | #628 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #442 | #520 |
| Florida | 42 | #445 | #504 |
| Kansas | 7 | #449 | #414 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #451 | #447 |
| Missouri | 12 | #481 | #497 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #505 | — |
| Indiana | 13 | #512 | #478 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #526 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #554 | #674 |
| Maryland | 9 | #555 | #578 |
| Oregon | 6 | #558 | — |
| North Carolina | 17 | #605 | #501 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #664 | #426 |
| Georgia | 15 | #678 | #661 |
| Alabama | 6 | #723 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 821 | #375 | — | — |
| 2024 | 801 | #394 | — | — |
| 2023 | 695 | #443 | — | — |
| 2022 | 645 | #486 | — | — |
| 2021 | 574 | #537 | — | — |
| 2020 | 438 | #657 | — | — |
| 2019 | 445 | #658 | — | — |
| 2018 | 431 | #678 | — | — |
| 2017 | 471 | #627 | — | — |
| 2016 | 516 | #592 | — | — |
| 2015 | 564 | #550 | — | — |
| 2014 | 671 | #473 | — | — |
| 2013 | 688 | #446 | — | — |
| 2012 | 787 | #394 | — | — |
| 2011 | 727 | #432 | — | — |
| 2010 | 789 | #406 | — | — |
| 2009 | 889 | #363 | — | — |
| 2008 | 884 | #372 | — | — |
| 2007 | 895 | #364 | — | — |
| 2006 | 777 | #410 | — | — |
| 2005 | 680 | #446 | — | — |
| 2004 | 631 | #468 | — | — |
| 2003 | 596 | #488 | — | — |
| 2002 | 578 | #485 | — | — |
| 2001 | 508 | #525 | — | — |
| 2000 | 439 | #586 | — | — |
| 1999 | 326 | #691 | — | — |
| 1998 | 252 | #845 | — | — |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1995 | 140 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1994 | 132 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1989 | 113 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1984 | 130 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1983 | 146 | #994 | — | — |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1981 | 166 | #901 | — | — |
| 1980 | 334 | #556 | — | — |
| 1979 | 72 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,053 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,920 | — | — |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,240 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,723 | — | — |
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).