Aneira
Aneira was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,165 among girls’ names; 145 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aneira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aneira mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Aneira is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “snow” (eira).
From an- + eira (“snow”)
/anˈei̯ra/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aneira?
#7,165 among girls’ names, 2025
Aneira rose from #7,649 in 2015 to #7,165 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 9.3 per million.
15 babies in 2015, the peak
Aneira peaked in 2015, when 15 girls were given it, #7,649 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,165 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,005 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,098 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,580 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,612 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,291 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,553 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,886 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,094 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,494 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,649 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,192 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,090 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,348 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,260 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,104 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,753 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aneira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aneira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aneira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aneira, and how old are they?
An estimated 144 Americans named Aneira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,895 babies since 1880, Aneira is the eighth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 327 babies (4.6%), the seventh 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 Aneira
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 Aneira and names like it
- Compare Aneira and AnoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAneira peaked in 2015.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Aneira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Aneira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aneira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.