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Ana

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Ana was given to 1,276 girls in 2025, #245 among girls’ names; 111,960 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 106,000 Americans named Ana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 43.

Babies named Ana each year, first recorded in 1880
Ana, 1880-2025; highest in 1991.1k2k3k188019001920194019601980200020251991 peak: 2,672
Ana, 1880-2025; highest in 1991.1k2k3k188019001920194019601980200020251991 peak: 2,672
Ana, 1880-2025; highest in 1991.1k2k3k18801905193019551980200520251991 peak: 2,672
Ana, 1880-2025; highest in 1991.1k2k3k18801930198020251991 peak: 2,672

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Ana or AnnaNames of the 1990sNames in California

Births of Ana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Ana mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Ana is “a female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.” Its etymology gives the senses “Anna” (Ἄννα) and “Hannah” (חַנָּה) and “grace, gracious, graced with child” (חַנָּה).

From various languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian, all derived—sometimes via Late Latin Anna in the Vulgate—from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna, “Anna”), chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the New Testament in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oregonian river, named for Ana Byars, daughter of the surveyor W.H. Byars. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Hannah.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Ana (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Ana?

#245 among girls’ names, 2025

Ana fell from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.87 to 0.79 per 1,000.

2,672 babies in 1991, the peak

Ana peaked in 1991, when 2,672 babies were given it (2,652 girls, #119 among girls’ names). The 1,276 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.

Ana by year
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 girls
20251,276#2450.79
20241,504#2040.93
20231,336#2230.83
20221,403#2080.86
20211,282#2340.78
20201,238#2440.77
20191,395#2230.83
20181,449#2150.85
20171,457#2110.84
20161,436#2220.81
Every recorded year (145)
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 girls
20151,548#2110.87
20141,538#2190.86
20131,349#2360.77
20121,462#2170.83
20111,334#2380.76
20101,575#1970.89
20091,826#1801.0
20081,955#1701.0
20072,228#1611.2
20062,414#1441.3
20052,354#1471.3
20042,348#1391.3
20032,595#1291.4
20022,537#1341.4
20012,518#1341.4
20002,428#1361.3
19992,113#1541.2
19982,265#1401.3
19972,318#1391.3
19962,307#1411.3
19952,367#1341.3
19942,211#1431.2
19932,366#1361.3
19922,328#1371.3
19912,652#1191.4
19902,614#1241.4
19892,276#1311.2
19881,665#1700.93
19871,647#1690.95
19861,641#1661.0
19851,470#1830.85
19841,391#1930.83
19831,309#2010.78
19821,365#2000.81
19811,441#1890.86
19801,325#1980.80
19791,140#2290.71
19781,139#2200.74
19771,137#2180.74
19761,165#2110.80
19751,157#2130.79
19741,179#2180.80
19731,097#2320.75
19721,086#2490.71
19711,069#2690.64
19701,048#2800.60
1969961#2920.57
1968923#2860.56
1967847#2970.51
1966820#3100.48
1965812#3170.46
1964758#3450.40
1963769#3410.40
1962686#3610.35
1961649#3790.32
1960619#3820.31
1959579#3930.29
1958539#3960.27
1957479#4300.23
1956469#4180.23
1955387#4570.20
1954387#4470.20
1953321#4790.17
1952288#4930.16
1951258#5150.14
1950223#5550.13
1949235#5450.14
1948226#5510.13
1947166#6450.09
1946135#6860.09
1945121#6730.09
1944114#7010.09
1943108#7450.08
194288#8140.07
194178#8150.06
194067#8680.06
193970#8260.06
193879#7920.07
193763#8700.06
193680#7480.08
193578#7660.07
193484#7280.08
193359#8780.06
193267#8470.06
193173#7930.07
193099#6900.09
192983#7640.07
192882#7910.07
192789#7660.07
192671#8800.06
192560#9600.05
192461#9760.05
192364#9120.05
192267#8910.06
192167#9080.05
192066#8940.06
191958#9250.05
191857#9480.05
191751#9780.05
191634#1,2290.03
191543#1,0120.04
191432#1,0590.04
191323#1,1530.04
191224#1,0570.04
191134#7410.08
191011#1,4220.03
190913#1,1540.04
190815#1,0470.04
190721#8210.07
190618#8720.06
190526#7000.09
19049#1,2550.03
190315#8990.06
190216#8730.06
19016#1,4780.03
190018#8880.06
189913#9090.06
189816#8410.06
18978#1,1710.03
189612#9550.05
189510#1,0550.04
189410#1,0010.04
189310#9570.05
18927#1,1740.03
18918#1,0100.04
189016#6680.08
18899#9060.05
188812#7540.07
188610#7330.07
18856#9250.05
188413#5850.10
18837#7540.06
18827#7460.06
18819#5830.10
18805#8410.05

Download Ana’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Ana a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Ana has been given almost only to girls: 601 boys in 145 years of records.

Girls and boys named Ana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Ana, and how old are they?

106,000 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 94% of the 111,960 Americans ever recorded as Ana. The median Ana alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 43.

The 2020 Census counted 321,854 people named Ana (321,184 women and girls, 670 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99,321 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times 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

100-1094
90-99104
80-89450
70-792,210
60-695,760
50-599,760
40-4912,800
30-39 (median)21,900
20-2923,600
10-1916,100
0-912,300

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-1945468
Baby Boomers1946-19646,630
Generation X1965-198015,900
Millennials1981-199630,500
Generation Z1997-201234,000
Generation Alpha2013-202518,100

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 Ana born?

The states with the most babies named Ana are Texas, California and Florida, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
StateBirths 2025Rank, girlsvs. national
Texas298#932.4×
California184#1742.1×
Florida117#1511.2×
Arizona77#711.9×
New York44#3911.2×
North Carolina40#2740.6×
Georgia36#2800.6×
Illinois33#3250.8×
New Jersey27#3040.9×
Tennessee27#2830.4×

Where Ana is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Ana is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Texas2.37×
California2.11×
Arizona1.91×
New York1.24×
Florida1.22×
District of Columbia1.06×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Ana 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 1,443,658 babies since 1880, Ana is the third most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,276 of their 7,050 babies (18%), the second most given that year.

Ana and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Anna917,6152,5211918
Anne325,9544721959
Ana111,9601,2761991
Anya20,5618212007
Anahi19,3906232006
Aniya18,0852262007
Anaya17,9979112025
Ayana12,0962002006

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 Ana

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Rebeca14,198
Marcela8,955
Simone28,067
Leeanna4,008
Ilana5,678
Molly176,487

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 Ana and names like it

  1. Compare Ana and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1990sAna peaked in 1991.
  3. California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ana since 1910.
  4. The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ana.
  5. The names of Generation ZMost people named Ana alive today were born 1997-2012.
  6. Names starting with AMost given first.

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