Anajah
Anajah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,322 among girls’ names; 322 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anajah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anajah?
#13,322 among girls’ names, 2025
Anajah rose from #14,650 in 2015 to #13,322 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
32 babies in 2003, the peak
Anajah peaked in 2003, when 32 girls were given it, #4,112 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,322 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,573 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,857 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,650 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,311 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,753 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,765 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,554 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,925 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,364 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 18 | #7,109 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,924 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,605 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,071 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,112 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,094 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,447 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,060 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,267 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,383 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,654 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anajah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anajah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anajah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anajah, and how old are they?
An estimated 319 Americans named Anajah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Anajah (247 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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 5,506 babies since 1880, Anajah is the fourth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 63 babies (9.5%), 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 Anajah
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 Anajah and names like it
- Compare Anajah and AnjaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnajah peaked in 2003.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anajah since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Anajah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anajah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.