Anaira
Anaira was given to 36 girls in 2025, #3,983 among girls’ names; 538 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anaira?
#3,983 among girls’ names, 2025
Anaira rose from #5,664 in 2015 to #3,983 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 22.4 per million.
57 babies in 2021, the peak
Anaira peaked in 2021, when 57 girls were given it, #2,931 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,983 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,301 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,279 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,968 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,931 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,289 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,795 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,778 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,776 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,424 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,664 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,738 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,310 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,829 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,232 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,505 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,924 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,669 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,570 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,745 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,118 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,290 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,282 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,183 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anaira, and how old are they?
An estimated 534 Americans named Anaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 307 people named Anaira (302 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,576 babies since 1880, Anaira is the fifth most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 699 babies (5.2%), again the fifth 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 Anaira
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 Anaira and names like it
- Compare Anaira and AinaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAnaira peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anaira since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Anaira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anaira alive today were born 2013-2025.
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