Aneta
Aneta was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 845 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aneta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aneta mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Aneta is “a female given name, equivalent to English Annette”
Borrowed from French Annette.
/aˈnɛ.ta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aneta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,591, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1948, the peak
Aneta peaked in 1948, when 18 girls were given it, #2,330 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #13,591 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,463 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,634 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,745 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,760 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,107 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,653 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,708 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,990 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,200 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | #12,183 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,750 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,861 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,538 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,656 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,695 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,633 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,774 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,609 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,905 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,168 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,140 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,358 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,566 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,745 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,976 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,071 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,269 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,208 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,268 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,824 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,708 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,615 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,130 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,108 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,144 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,424 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,648 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,047 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,635 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,207 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,641 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,552 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,305 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,320 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,443 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,581 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,928 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,929 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,932 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,076 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,724 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,923 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,934 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,488 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,237 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,330 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,246 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,604 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,920 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,142 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,153 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,417 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,403 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,217 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,950 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,584 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,103 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,391 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,580 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,931 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,545 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,495 | 11.2 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,856 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,691 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,177 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,828 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,872 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,676 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,151 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,923 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,617 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,683 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,905 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,464 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,525 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,703 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,047 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,808 | 6.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,211 | 8.0 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,606 | 22.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aneta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aneta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aneta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aneta, and how old are they?
An estimated 538 Americans named Aneta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 33 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,776 people named Aneta (2,774 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 589 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 230,581 babies since 1880, Aneta is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 187 babies recorded by SSA was a Aneta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Aneta
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 Aneta and names like it
- Compare Aneta and AnitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sAneta peaked in 1948.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aneta since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aneta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Aneta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aneta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.