Aniela
Aniela was given to 36 girls in 2025, #3,984 among girls’ names; 1,081 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aniela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aniela mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Aniela is “a female given name, equivalent to English Angela”
Learned borrowing from Latin Angela, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).
/aˈɲɛ.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aniela?
#3,984 among girls’ names, 2025
Aniela rose from #4,735 in 2015 to #3,984 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 22.4 per million.
52 babies in 2010, the peak
Aniela peaked in 2010, when 52 girls were given it, #3,164 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,984 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,120 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,136 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,117 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,511 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,087 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,016 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,798 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,364 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,786 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,735 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,361 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,271 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,171 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,365 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,164 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,256 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,013 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,432 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,320 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,649 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,988 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,597 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,458 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,644 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,212 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,542 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,637 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,195 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,596 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,640 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,568 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,418 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,321 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,079 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,894 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,403 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,160 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,752 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,192 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,587 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,507 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,211 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,594 | 4.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,404 | 7.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,139 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,348 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,835 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,525 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,105 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,667 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,148 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,901 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,552 | 11.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aniela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aniela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aniela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aniela, and how old are they?
An estimated 989 Americans named Aniela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,189 people named Aniela (1,186 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 807 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% 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.
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 9,208 babies since 1880, Aniela is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 373 babies (9.7%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Aniela
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 Aniela and names like it
- Compare Aniela and AnylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAniela peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aniela since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aniela: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Aniela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aniela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.