Anijah
Anijah was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,567 among girls’ names; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Anijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anijah?
#6,567 among girls’ names, 2025
Anijah fell from #4,500 in 2015 to #6,567 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 10.6 per million.
104 babies in 2010, the peak
Anijah peaked in 2010, when 104 girls were given it, #1,930 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,567 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,417 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,437 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,724 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,017 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,338 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,454 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,164 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,525 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,637 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,500 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,011 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,165 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,215 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,590 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,930 | 58.5 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,151 | 50.6 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,123 | 50.2 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,434 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,130 | 47.9 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,879 | 55.7 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,910 | 53.4 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,166 | 43.8 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,198 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,879 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,068 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,893 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,087 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,868 | 7.5 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,597 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,872 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anijah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anijah, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,392 Americans ever recorded as Anijah. The median Anijah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 15 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 985 people named Anijah (965 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,294 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 287 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,506 babies since 1880, Anijah is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 63 babies (27%), again the second 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 Anijah
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 Anijah and names like it
- Compare Anijah and AnjaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnijah peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anijah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Anijah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anijah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.