Anaya
Anaya was given to 911 girls in 2025, #336 among girls’ names; 17,997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,900 Americans named Anaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anaya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anaya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anaya?
#336 among girls’ names, 2025
Anaya rose from #407 in 2015 to #336 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.44 to 0.57 per 1,000.
911 babies in 2025, the peak
Anaya peaked in 2025, when 911 girls were given it, #336 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 785 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 911 | #336 | 0.57 |
| 2024 | 785 | #406 | 0.48 |
| 2023 | 789 | #388 | 0.49 |
| 2022 | 770 | #410 | 0.47 |
| 2021 | 758 | #414 | 0.46 |
| 2020 | 809 | #383 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 779 | #397 | 0.46 |
| 2018 | 736 | #429 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 768 | #413 | 0.44 |
| 2016 | 837 | #397 | 0.47 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 789 | #407 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 741 | #430 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 641 | #477 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 648 | #474 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 622 | #478 | 0.35 |
| 2010 | 625 | #482 | 0.35 |
| 2009 | 657 | #472 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 728 | #439 | 0.38 |
| 2007 | 694 | #464 | 0.36 |
| 2006 | 642 | #484 | 0.34 |
| 2005 | 635 | #481 | 0.34 |
| 2004 | 567 | #511 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 519 | #539 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 379 | #670 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 328 | #732 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 243 | #900 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,069 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 104 | #1,577 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,782 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,208 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,850 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,537 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,829 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,729 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,265 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,725 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,738 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,816 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anaya, and how old are they?
17,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 17,997 Americans ever recorded as Anaya. The median Anaya alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 11,706 people named Anaya (11,647 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,100 |
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 Anaya born?
The states with the most babies named Anaya are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 145 | #232 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 108 | #312 | 1.1× |
| New York | 91 | #178 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 78 | #245 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 43 | #194 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #328 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 29 | #356 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 28 | #404 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 26 | #195 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 26 | #274 | 0.8× |
Where Anaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anaya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1978 it was given 1.6 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 Anaya 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 1,148,916 babies since 1880, Anaya is the seventh most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 911 of their 7,196 babies (13%), the third 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 Anaya
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 Anaya and names like it
- Compare Anaya and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAnaya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Anaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.