Anay
Anay was given to 49 boys in 2025, #2,646 among boys’ names; 2,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Anay 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 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anay?
#2,646 among boys’ names, 2025
Anay fell from #1,872 in 2015 to #2,646 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 28.7 per million.
108 babies in 2017, the peak
Anay peaked in 2017, when 108 babies were given it (102 boys, #1,582 among boys’ names). The 49 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 49 | #2,646 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 46 | #2,791 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 22 | #4,611 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 48 | #2,718 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 39 | #3,074 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 57 | #2,348 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 60 | #2,292 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 77 | #1,919 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,286 | 102 | #1,582 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,942 | 87 | #1,764 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #11,917 | 78 | #1,872 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 78 | #1,872 | |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,660 | 86 | #1,708 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,105 | 75 | #1,909 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,206 | 86 | #1,720 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,792 | 61 | #2,170 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,810 | 53 | #2,402 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,012 | 34 | #3,289 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,383 | 35 | #3,187 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,509 | 34 | #3,155 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,366 | 19 | #4,470 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,992 | 19 | #4,423 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,133 | 16 | #4,818 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,780 | 17 | #4,508 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,700 | 9 | #6,947 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,854 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,047 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,427 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,429 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,459 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,976 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,158 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,425 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,276 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,332 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,559 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,069 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,294 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,499 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Anay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,055 Americans recorded as Anay, 37% are girls and 63% boys. In 2025 it went to 49 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 Anay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anay, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,055 Americans ever recorded as Anay. The median Anay alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,076 people named Anay (999 women and girls, 1,077 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 145 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 856 |
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 Anay born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,697 | 1.7× |
Where Anay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anay is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1984 it was given 2.2 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 boys’ 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 Anay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anay
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.
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