Anaiah
Anaiah was given to 318 girls in 2025, #853 among girls’ names; 3,463 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,440 Americans named Anaiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anaiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anaiah?
#853 among girls’ names, 2025
Anaiah rose from #1,678 in 2015 to #853 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.20 per 1,000.
318 babies in 2025, the peak
Anaiah peaked in 2025, when 318 girls were given it, #853 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 289 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 318 | #853 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 289 | #919 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 225 | #1,094 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,522 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,526 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,608 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,701 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,831 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 98 | #2,008 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,866 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,678 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 143 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 113 | #1,807 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 143 | #1,540 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 167 | #1,373 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,530 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,452 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,620 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,771 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,249 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,828 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,589 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,522 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,743 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,764 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,332 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,314 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,373 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,892 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,178 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,061 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anaiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anaiah has been given almost only to girls: 18 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Anaiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anaiah, and how old are they?
3,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,463 Americans ever recorded as Anaiah. The median Anaiah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,839 people named Anaiah (1,775 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,070 |
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 Anaiah born?
The states with the most babies named Anaiah are Florida, Texas and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 47 | #398 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 40 | #745 | 1.1× |
| California | 35 | #833 | 1.0× |
| New York | 21 | #763 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #398 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #670 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #801 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #981 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #932 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 9 | #963 | 0.3× |
Where Anaiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anaiah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1983 it was given 2.0 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 Anaiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Anaiah?
Anaiah is a less common spelling of Anaya: SSA has recorded 3,463 Anaiah and 17,997 Anaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,502 babies since 1880, Anaiah is the fourth most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 318 of their 2,326 babies (14%), the third most given that year.
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 Anaiah
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 Anaiah and names like it
- Compare Anaiah and AnayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAnaiah peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anaiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Anaiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anaiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.