Anaia
Anaia was given to 183 girls in 2025, #1,230 among girls’ names; 936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anaia?
#1,230 among girls’ names, 2025
Anaia rose from #7,302 in 2015 to #1,230 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.01 to 0.11 per 1,000.
183 babies in 2025, the peak
Anaia peaked in 2025, when 183 girls were given it, #1,230 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 143 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 183 | #1,230 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,510 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,981 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,369 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,682 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,176 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,919 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,818 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,306 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,635 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,302 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,477 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,060 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,718 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,951 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,617 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,690 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,763 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,536 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,506 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,443 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,217 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,314 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,325 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,225 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,825 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,840 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,181 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anaia 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 Anaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anaia, and how old are they?
An estimated 930 Americans named Anaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 464 people named Anaia (462 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 445 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 Anaia?
Anaia is a less common spelling of Anaya: SSA has recorded 936 Anaia and 17,997 Anaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,468,724 babies since 1880, Anaia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 183 of their 8,251 babies (2.2%), 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 Anaia
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 Anaia and names like it
- Compare Anaia and AnayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAnaia peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anaia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Anaia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anaia alive today were born 2013-2025.
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