Anai
Anai was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,668 among girls’ names; 2,327 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Anai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anai?
#4,668 among girls’ names, 2025
Anai fell from #4,150 in 2015 to #4,668 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 18.0 per million.
139 babies in 2005, the peak
Anai peaked in 2005, when 139 girls were given it, #1,500 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,668 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,628 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,399 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,419 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,168 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,177 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,553 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,792 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,587 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,538 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,150 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,929 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,366 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,922 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,410 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,780 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,425 | 43.0 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,007 | 55.0 |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,868 | 58.3 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,640 | 67.9 |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,500 | 75.2 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,756 | 59.4 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,652 | 63.5 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,607 | 64.0 |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,377 | 76.6 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,648 | 58.9 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,891 | 46.8 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,896 | 45.3 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,306 | 33.3 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,312 | 32.5 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,389 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,252 | 32.5 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,488 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,729 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,883 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,957 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,119 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,905 | 7.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,596 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,585 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,182 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anai has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anai, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,327 Americans ever recorded as Anai. The median Anai alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,476 people named Anai (2,425 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 409 |
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 Anai born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,141 | 2.2× |
Where Anai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anai is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 2.2 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 Anai 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 1,777,984 babies since 1880, Anai is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 8,343 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 Anai
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 Anai and names like it
- Compare Anai and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnai peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anai since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Anai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.