Ahna
Ahna was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,102 among girls’ names; 1,171 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Ahna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ahna?
#5,102 among girls’ names, 2025
Ahna fell from #3,177 in 2015 to #5,102 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 15.6 per million.
68 babies in 2014, the peak
Ahna peaked in 2014, when 68 girls were given it, #2,581 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,102 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,893 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,967 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,405 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,238 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,264 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,547 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,152 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,696 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,328 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,177 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,581 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,160 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,961 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,569 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,817 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,944 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,761 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,379 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,955 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,263 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,169 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,032 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,144 | 25.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,009 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,076 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,423 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,954 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,163 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,735 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,518 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,586 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,415 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,003 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,661 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,230 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,286 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,596 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,854 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,759 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,311 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,435 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,325 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,795 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,192 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,658 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,905 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,175 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,685 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,482 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,007 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,061 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahna, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,171 Americans ever recorded as Ahna. The median Ahna alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,147 people named Ahna (1,140 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,029 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 73 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 421 |
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).
How common is the spelling Ahna?
Ahna is a less common spelling of Anna: SSA has recorded 1,171 Ahna and 917,615 Anna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,396,404 babies since 1880, Ahna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 5,508 babies (<1%), 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 Ahna
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 Ahna and names like it
- Compare Ahna and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAhna peaked in 2014.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahna since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Ahna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ahna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.