Ani
Ani was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,961 among girls’ names; 3,188 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Ani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ani?
#2,961 among girls’ names, 2025
Ani fell from #2,353 in 2015 to #2,961 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 34.8 per million.
127 babies in 2007, the peak
Ani peaked in 2007, when 127 babies were given it (122 girls, #1,761 among girls’ names). The 56 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,961 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,310 | 49.4 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,447 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,347 | 48.2 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,559 | 41.4 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,219 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,217 | 49.5 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,613 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,512 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,093 | 52.5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,353 | 43.7 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,968 | 56.5 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,367 | 43.9 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,658 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,276 | 46.6 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,387 | 44.4 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,949 | 58.2 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,967 | 56.6 |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,761 | 63.5 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,895 | 56.3 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,706 | 62.8 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,685 | 62.6 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,720 | 60.2 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,915 | 51.2 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,208 | 40.5 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,900 | 49.0 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,855 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,496 | 31.1 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,591 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,508 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 56 | #2,343 | 31.8 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,098 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,413 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,384 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,734 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,734 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,928 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,393 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,102 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,363 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,520 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,918 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,068 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,654 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,344 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,860 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,237 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,517 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,906 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,631 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,520 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,699 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,478 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,982 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,819 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,031 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,064 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,788 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,208 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,026 | 3.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,909 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ani has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ani, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,188 Americans ever recorded as Ani. The median Ani alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,505 people named Ani (5,277 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ani rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 568 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,000 |
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 Ani born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,239 | 3.0× |
Where Ani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ani is most over-represented in California: since 1958 it was given 3.0 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 Ani 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,778,933 babies since 1880, Ani is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 7,685 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Ani
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 Ani and names like it
- Compare Ani and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAni peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ani since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Ani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.