Anaya — #406 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Anaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,080 babies named Anaya between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anaya currently holds the #406 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 837 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anaya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Anaya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,436 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Anaya in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anaya 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 17,080 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.