Anija
Anija was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 331 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anija by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anija?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,740, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 2002, the peak
Anija peaked in 2002, when 30 girls were given it, #4,188 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #13,740 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,739 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,102 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,611 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,878 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,385 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,711 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,445 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,243 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,928 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 28 | #4,709 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,503 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,315 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,188 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,328 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,949 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,543 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,314 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,881 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anija a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anija has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anija: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anija, and how old are they?
An estimated 328 Americans named Anija and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 18 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 289 people named Anija (277 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Anija?
Anija is a less common spelling of Anijah: SSA has recorded 331 Anija and 1,392 Anijah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,571 babies since 1880, Anija is the third most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 63 babies recorded by SSA was a Anija (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 Anija
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 Anija and names like it
- Compare Anija and AnijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnija peaked in 2002.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anija since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Anija.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anija alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.