Aanya
Aanya was given to 124 girls in 2025, #1,666 among girls’ names; 3,732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Aanya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aanya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aanya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aanya is “a female given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “inexhaustible” ([Term?]).
From Sanskrit [Term?] (“inexhaustible”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aanya?
#1,666 among girls’ names, 2025
Aanya fell from #1,088 in 2015 to #1,666 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.08 per 1,000.
266 babies in 2014, the peak
Aanya peaked in 2014, when 266 girls were given it, #997 among girls’ names. The 124 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124 | #1,666 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 134 | #1,575 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,421 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 189 | #1,269 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 163 | #1,354 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,533 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,528 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,595 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,422 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,164 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 240 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 266 | #997 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 230 | #1,073 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 247 | #1,026 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 229 | #1,075 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 199 | #1,218 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 182 | #1,322 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 207 | #1,222 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,734 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,107 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,726 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,685 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,088 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,669 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,565 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,796 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,118 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aanya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aanya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aanya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aanya, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,732 Americans ever recorded as Aanya. The median Aanya alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,738 people named Aanya (2,733 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,843 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,280 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aanya born?
The states with the most babies named Aanya are California, Texas and Washington, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #965 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,532 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 12 | #542 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,014 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #940 | 3.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,281 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #2,075 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,180 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #873 | 1.5× |
Where Aanya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aanya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1998 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aanya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,118,372 babies since 1880, Aanya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 6,240 babies (2.0%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aanya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aanya and names like it
- Compare Aanya and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAanya peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aanya since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Aanya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aanya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.