Anan
Anan was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,134 among boys’ names; 94 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anan?
#12,134 among boys’ names, 2025
Anan entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,134 in 2025.
11 babies in 2008, the peak
Anan peaked in 2008, when 11 babies were given it (6 boys, #11,113 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,134 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,355 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,877 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,252 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,265 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,296 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,694 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,700 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,383 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,113 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #11,000 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,743 | 2.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,321 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,741 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,560 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,508 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 94 Americans recorded as Anan, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Anan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anan, and how old are they?
An estimated 92 Americans named Anan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 599 people named Anan (249 women and girls, 350 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 77 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Anan rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 19,142 babies since 1880, Anan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,319 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Anan
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 Anan and names like it
- Compare Anan and AyaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnan peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Anan.
- Names starting with AMost given first.