Ania
Ania was given to 69 girls in 2025, #2,544 among girls’ names; 3,315 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Ania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ania mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Ania is “a diminutive of the female given name Anna”
Clipping of Anna + -ia.
/ˈa.ɲa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ania?
#2,544 among girls’ names, 2025
Ania fell from #2,296 in 2015 to #2,544 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 45.4 to 42.9 per million.
181 babies in 2006, the peak
Ania peaked in 2006, when 181 girls were given it, #1,295 among girls’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,544 | 42.9 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,613 | 41.4 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,448 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,720 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,720 | 38.4 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,220 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,253 | 48.3 |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,193 | 50.0 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,322 | 45.8 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,388 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #2,296 | 45.4 |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,355 | 43.7 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,328 | 45.0 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,115 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,260 | 47.2 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,830 | 62.4 |
| 2009 | 141 | #1,594 | 76.8 |
| 2008 | 159 | #1,474 | 84.1 |
| 2007 | 142 | #1,590 | 73.9 |
| 2006 | 181 | #1,295 | 95.2 |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,472 | 77.4 |
| 2004 | 168 | #1,272 | 91.5 |
| 2003 | 128 | #1,521 | 70.1 |
| 2002 | 127 | #1,492 | 70.7 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,710 | 58.3 |
| 2000 | 131 | #1,411 | 72.1 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,855 | 47.9 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,866 | 46.4 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,001 | 40.8 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,715 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,786 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,244 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,423 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,419 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,061 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,869 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,554 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,336 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,324 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,635 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,461 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,747 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,344 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,287 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,168 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,254 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,072 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,612 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,918 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,351 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,028 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,723 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,479 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,314 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,280 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ania, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,315 Americans ever recorded as Ania. The median Ania alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,952 people named Ania (3,935 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above 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 | 64 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 315 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 971 |
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 Ania born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,517 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,953 | 0.8× |
Where Ania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ania is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1968 it was given 1.2 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 Ania 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 1,790,882 babies since 1880, Ania is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 7,693 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 Ania
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 Ania and names like it
- Compare Ania and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnia peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ania since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Ania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.