Ananya
Ananya was given to 52 girls in 2025, #3,105 among girls’ names; 4,015 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,980 Americans named Ananya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ananya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ananya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ananya is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अनन्य (ananya).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ananya?
#3,105 among girls’ names, 2025
Ananya fell from #1,366 in 2015 to #3,105 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 96.9 to 32.4 per million.
214 babies in 2008, the peak
Ananya peaked in 2008, when 214 girls were given it, #1,188 among girls’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,105 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,308 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,558 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,208 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,732 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 133 | #1,578 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 138 | #1,561 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 148 | #1,483 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,564 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,394 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 173 | #1,366 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 189 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 181 | #1,292 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,303 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,319 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 184 | #1,293 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 209 | #1,198 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 214 | #1,188 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 197 | #1,253 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 208 | #1,167 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 191 | #1,199 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 175 | #1,243 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,331 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 151 | #1,296 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,965 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,305 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,525 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,300 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,818 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,854 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,108 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ananya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ananya has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 31 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ananya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ananya, and how old are they?
3,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,015 Americans ever recorded as Ananya. The median Ananya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,634 people named Ananya (4,514 women and girls, 120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,481 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,670 |
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 Ananya born?
The states with the most babies named Ananya are California, Texas and Georgia, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,751 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,045 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,378 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,185 | 3.2× |
Where Ananya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ananya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1995 it was given 3.2 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 Ananya 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 1,010,427 babies since 1880, Ananya is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 5,016 babies (1.0%), the eighth 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 Ananya
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 Ananya and names like it
- Compare Ananya and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnanya peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ananya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Ananya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ananya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ananya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.