Unisex name · since 1916
Aner
Aner has 24 recorded births since 1916 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #27,435 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #12,132 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 24
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
24 babies have been named Aner since 1916, making it today's #12132 unisex name.
Aner has 24 recorded births among boys since 1916, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12132 as of the latest data, more common than 13% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 2025.
- #27,435 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #12,132 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 24 born since 1916
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aner ranks #27,435 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,132 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 24 born since 1916, peaking in the 2020s.
- #27,435 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #12,132 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 24
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aner's 24 recorded births place it above 39.11% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Aner compares
24 9th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Aner's all-time total is 93% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Aner | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 24 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 34 | 22,252 |
Aner's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Aner's full recorded timeline at 2024, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1916, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Aner popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 110 years of records
Aner popularity over time - girls
7 total births recorded since 1921 (Aner as girls' name)
Aner by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (14 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Aner's strongest decade.
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Aner births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 5
1910s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 14 births (58% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aner draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.