Anaiyah
Anaiyah was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,901 among girls’ names; 1,646 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Anaiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anaiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anaiyah?
#2,901 among girls’ names, 2025
Anaiyah fell from #2,411 in 2015 to #2,901 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.6 to 36.1 per million.
103 babies in 2010, the peak
Anaiyah peaked in 2010, when 103 girls were given it, #1,944 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,901 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,177 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,227 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,859 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,217 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,291 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,403 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,131 | 52.3 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,268 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,833 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,411 | 42.6 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,739 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,366 | 43.9 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,736 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,418 | 43.2 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,944 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,229 | 47.9 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,355 | 43.4 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,369 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,781 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,403 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,849 | 30.5 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,131 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,656 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,706 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,318 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,459 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,304 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anaiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anaiyah 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 Anaiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anaiyah, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,646 Americans ever recorded as Anaiyah. The median Anaiyah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,001 people named Anaiyah (998 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 803 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 830 |
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 Anaiyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,960 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,408 | 0.9× |
Where Anaiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anaiyah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1998 it was given 1.4 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 Anaiyah 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 83,366 babies since 1880, Anaiyah is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 2,520 babies (2.3%), the sixth 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 Anaiyah
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 Anaiyah and names like it
- Compare Anaiyah and AniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnaiyah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anaiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Anaiyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anaiyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.