Anam — #5195 US girls' name
686 babies named Anam in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 71% of names given to girls today.
34% of everyone ever named Anam was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Anam in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Anam
The Social Security Administration has registered 686 babies named Anam between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anam currently holds the #5195 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Anam performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Anam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Anam in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Anam in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 686 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Anam at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Anam popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1987
- Peak year (1991)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 38 years of records
Currently ranks #5195 among girls.
686 total births across 38 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 30 births in a single year.
Anam by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 233 births that decade — 34% of Anam's all-time total
Anam decade highlights
- Peak decade 233 births
- Runner-up 173 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Anam's strongest decade
233 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Anam by state
Where Anam concentrates geographically — total births since 1987
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 66 | 9.6% |
| #2 | California | | 29 | 4.2% |
| #3 | Texas | | 18 | 2.6% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 12 | 1.7% |
66 of 686 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 9.6% of nationwide
- California 4.2% of nationwide
- Texas 2.6% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 9.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1987–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.