Anel
Anel was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,025 among girls’ names; 2,141 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,090 Americans named Anel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anel?
#12,025 among girls’ names, 2025
Anel fell from #7,650 in 2015 to #12,025 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 4.4 per million.
76 babies in 1991, the peak
Anel peaked in 1991, when 76 girls were given it, #1,853 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,025 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,194 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,519 | 5 | #12,364 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,109 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,224 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,952 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,435 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,436 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,479 | 5 | #12,375 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,441 | 5 | #12,305 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,650 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,481 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,482 | 8 | #8,837 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,509 | 6 | #10,864 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,446 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,242 | 9 | #8,175 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,878 | 9 | #8,334 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,186 | 12 | #6,779 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,055 | 12 | #6,643 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,622 | 13 | #6,109 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,737 | 16 | #5,043 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,072 | 12 | #6,146 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,884 | 19 | #4,282 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,933 | 13 | #5,410 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,142 | 17 | #4,481 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,454 | 10 | #6,332 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,098 | 14 | #4,770 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,693 | 11 | #5,480 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,732 | 6 | #8,174 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,796 | 8 | #6,522 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,684 | 6 | #7,830 |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,120 | 8 | #6,400 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,878 | 7 | #6,845 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,291 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,853 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,286 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,569 | 6 | #6,975 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,365 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,170 | 7 | #5,474 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,205 | 7 | #5,355 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,422 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,625 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,660 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,706 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,726 | 6 | #5,509 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,653 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,526 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,012 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,901 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,295 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,990 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,617 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,129 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,600 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,817 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Anel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,141 Americans recorded as Anel, 88% are girls and 12% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Anel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anel, and how old are they?
2,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,141 Americans ever recorded as Anel. The median Anel alive today is 30 years old; half are between 21 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 3,482 people named Anel (2,766 women and girls, 716 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,039 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 362 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 722 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 801 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 203 |
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 Anel born?
The states with the most babies named Anel are California, Texas and Illinois, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 730 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 358 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 81 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Anel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anel is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.6 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 Anel 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,625 babies since 1880, Anel is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 34 babies (21%), the second 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 Anel
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 Anel and names like it
- Compare Anel and AnnellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAnel peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anel since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Anel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.