Anay — #2820 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Anay

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,238 babies named Anay between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Anay currently holds the #2820 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 102 babies received it in a single year. Anay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 768 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anay performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 790 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Anay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 254 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Anay in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anay 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 1,238 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.