Anibal
Anibal was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,127 among boys’ names; 3,950 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,470 Americans named Anibal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 22 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anibal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anibal?
#3,127 among boys’ names, 2025
Anibal fell from #2,968 in 2015 to #3,127 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 22.2 per million.
92 babies in 1990, the peak
Anibal peaked in 1990, when 92 boys were given it, #1,113 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,127 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,398 | 19.7 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,898 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,056 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,738 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,422 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 42 | #2,901 | 23.4 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,892 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,757 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,885 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,968 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,091 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,128 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,868 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,951 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,309 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,167 | 31.3 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,635 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,606 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,967 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,197 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,641 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,543 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,502 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,303 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,085 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,262 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,010 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,022 | 23.3 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,398 | 39.6 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,522 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 60 | #1,540 | 31.1 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,308 | 38.2 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,296 | 37.5 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,302 | 36.6 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,113 | 44.8 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,277 | 36.0 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,122 | 41.3 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,246 | 32.7 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,135 | 37.5 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,147 | 35.7 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,323 | 27.7 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,006 | 43.0 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,218 | 32.0 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,177 | 34.1 |
| 1980 | 44 | #1,432 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,352 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,203 | 33.5 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,121 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 83 | #911 | 52.9 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,029 | 41.0 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,019 | 41.3 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,082 | 35.9 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,050 | 36.4 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,047 | 33.9 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,064 | 31.8 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,000 | 33.0 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,047 | 28.8 |
| 1967 | 53 | #992 | 30.4 |
| 1966 | 54 | #991 | 30.3 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,020 | 28.0 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,045 | 26.1 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,068 | 25.1 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,203 | 20.3 |
| 1961 | 62 | #979 | 29.2 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,295 | 17.4 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,033 | 25.8 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,147 | 21.2 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,213 | 19.0 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,297 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,396 | 14.6 |
| 1954 | 25 | #1,526 | 12.3 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,711 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,703 | 10.3 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,684 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,210 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,458 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,015 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,870 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,698 | 4.9 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,240 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,225 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,149 | 5.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,484 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,565 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,800 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,782 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,783 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,570 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,174 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,706 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,716 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,597 | 9.9 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,831 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,544 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,348 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,220 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,121 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,203 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,005 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,845 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,279 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anibal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anibal has been given almost only to boys: 22 girls in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Anibal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anibal, and how old are they?
3,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 3,950 Americans ever recorded as Anibal. The median Anibal alive today is 37 years old; half are between 22 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 8,137 people named Anibal (78 women and girls, 8,059 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 413 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 817 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 687 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 476 |
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 Anibal born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,766 | 1.2× |
| California | 8 | #1,839 | 1.3× |
Where Anibal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anibal is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 it was given 3.3 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 boys’ 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 Anibal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anibal
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 Anibal and names like it
- Compare Anibal and KervinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anibal since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Anibal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Anibal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.