Anahit — #7719 US girls' name
378 babies named Anahit in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to girls today.
37% of everyone ever named Anahit was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Anahit in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Anahit
The Social Security Administration has registered 378 babies named Anahit between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anahit currently holds the #7719 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Anahit performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 138 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Anahit shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 241 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Anahit in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Anahit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 378 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Anahit at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Anahit popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1988
- Peak year (2004)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
Currently ranks #7719 among girls.
378 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 23 births in a single year.
Anahit by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 138 births that decade — 37% of Anahit's all-time total
Anahit decade highlights
- Peak decade 138 births
- Runner-up 85 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Anahit's strongest decade
138 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Anahit by state
Where Anahit concentrates geographically — total births since 1988
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 241 | 63.8% |
241 of 378 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 63.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 63.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1988–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.