Anayah
Anayah was given to 289 girls in 2025, #913 among girls’ names; 3,672 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,650 Americans named Anayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anayah?
#913 among girls’ names, 2025
Anayah rose from #1,239 in 2015 to #913 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.18 per 1,000.
289 babies in 2025, the peak
Anayah peaked in 2025, when 289 girls were given it, #913 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 235 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 289 | #913 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 235 | #1,062 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 180 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,419 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,432 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,525 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,429 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,521 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,401 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 193 | #1,264 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 197 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,205 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,634 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,790 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,595 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 141 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,775 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,786 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,269 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,088 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,042 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,464 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,381 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,701 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,525 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,974 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,563 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,374 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,629 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anayah, and how old are they?
3,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,672 Americans ever recorded as Anayah. The median Anayah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,117 people named Anayah (2,108 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,320 |
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 Anayah born?
The states with the most babies named Anayah are Florida, Texas and California, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 53 | #345 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,157 | 1.0× |
| California | 20 | #1,236 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #337 | 1.6× |
| New York | 15 | #986 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #501 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 14 | #488 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #820 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #992 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 9 | #553 | 0.5× |
Where Anayah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anayah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1996 it was given 2.1 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 Anayah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Anayah?
Anayah is a less common spelling of Anaya: SSA has recorded 3,672 Anayah and 17,997 Anaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 102,281 babies since 1880, Anayah is the sixth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 289 of their 3,283 babies (8.8%), the fifth 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 Anayah
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 Anayah and names like it
- Compare Anayah and AnayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAnayah peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Anayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.